On the Way Home

 You cannot hope to be a scholar. But what you can do is to curb arrogance; what you can do is to rise above pleasures and plains; you can b...

 The daily wearing away of life, with its ever-shrinking reminder, is not the only thing we have to consider. For even if a man's years ...

 Yes, this is actually a thing - and, strangely enough, I'll be giving a talk during Vermont Public Philosophy Week. As with most things...

 Yes, I recently blew by 700 straight days on Duolingo. I've mainly moved on to Pimsleur, which is both a much better (read: you have to...

 I think when I suddenly moved into a log cabin in the middle of nowhere with a woman I had only been dating a few months - and then followe...

In the past I've often proposed that I can't stand birthdays that end in 3, as in 33 or 43 or 53 or 63 - or, god forbid, 73. My rati...

   If it weren't for my continuous dreaming, my perpetual state of alienation, I could very well call myself a realist - someone, that i...