The Love and Care of Feral Creatures
This cat-that-is-not-mine and I have had a week. We are almost six months in and she’s remained a feral, outside cat who just happens to call my front porch home base. I came from home from Louisiana this past weekend to find her limping fiercely, and upon further...
Eyes on the Ground
We’ll do an easy one.Those were the words used to describe plans for a low-key mountain adventure and the intent to climb one of Colorado’s 14ers. Believe it or not, there are easier 14,000 foot mountains than others, but those difficulty ratings depend on ideal...
Who is James?
If you’re not watching Jeopardy! right now, you should be. I’m obsessed with stories like this one, stories that throw a champion your way when you least expect it. We’ll get to James Holzhauer, who we’ll call James from here on so I don’t have to copy/paste his last...
Under Pressure
Sing along, everybody!Mm ba ba deUm bum ba deUm bu bu bum da de There’s a reason why couples who meet during traumatic situations stay together. Those scenarios are proving grounds, and it goes for our more platonic relationships as well.We could expedite a lot of...
Unicorns Are Dumb
We want what we don’t have. As a creator, I know this. My job is to make things that aren’t things yet, and I have a duty to champion imagination. I think we are exposed too early to the wonder of the world, however, and that’s why we’re unimpressed by it. All those...
Cars
As environments go, it’s hard to find a more diversely populated location than the freeway. Speed demons. Slow pokes. Vacationing families. CEO’s going to work. Uber drivers. Delivery drivers. That one guy on the motorcycle at midnight doing 120mph like a drunk...
Songs for Airports
Airports are flowing rivers of human bodies. Thousands of humans snake forward around turns and down impossibly long hallways. Different currents move at different speeds. The slow and weak, the people who fly rarely if ever, get snagged on the rocks and...
Dear Heckler
Dear Heckler, Thank you for taking the time to write me. I assume this is in regard to your (birthday party/ bachelorette party/anniversary). Yes, yes. I know. You didn’t do anything at all. No, I know. You were just laughing. I mean, is there a law against laughing?...
Who I Work For
I have a lot of conversations about my process, or more specifically, about the amount of time I spend on different facets of what I do. I used to take a lot of it for granted before I realized that our process is everything. The space we work in, the amount of time...