Appropriately, it happened during one of those rare moments that were truly outside of time.
The messages arrived when my phone was not just on “Do Not Disturb,” or even in airplane mode, but actually turned off.
I didn’t want to risk any interruptions, since I was sitting in the second row with my m...
One part of what makes Awkward Beginnings — this month’s theme, meditation HERE — so challenging is that they often involve some variation of the burden of proof.
As every courtroom TV fan knows, legally this means convincing a judge or a jury, through a preponderance of evidenc...
For seventeen years, Mark Twain lived only 11 miles away from where I’m sitting at my desk right now.
It was definitely his creative peak, where he wrote his most famous works including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connect...
He certainly had a flair for drama.
In fact, he’d crafted an entire “smoking gun” reveal — a true “gotcha!” moment.
It caught us — a handful of dorky high school students — completely by surprise.
Perhaps we were just naïve, but I don’t think anyone could have foreseen this particular mi...
“What do you mean ‘He’s Vanished’?” I asked.
“We just haven’t seen him,” came the polite but embarrassed reply.
“Do you mean since lunch — or for weeks?”
“It’s been days since he showed up. Honestly, we have no idea where he is or if he’s ever coming back.”
Fortunately, neither I nor ...
I admit that at first I almost took it quite personally.
Then I contemplated whether I was being gaslit for some unknown reason.
Next I considered it was some version of the Mandela effect — the social phenomenon where large groups of people share a memory that others dispute.Perhaps i...
Most of them range from banal to sweet, with a brilliant and heartfelt one occasionally thrown into the mix.
I’m talking about my iPhone’s self-directed fondness for creating curated collections of photos under the Memories tab.
Apple started auto-generating Memories in the Photos app with iOS 1...
I know I’m not alone.
On the one hand, I’m continually marveling at the incredible benefits of technology, particularly AI and telecommunications.
On any given day, I’ll have a Zoom meeting with a client across the country, another in Europe, while two different freelancers in other corners of the wo...
Even if I live to be 100, I don’t know if I’ll ever lose the feeling.
Specifically, that September means “back to school.”
It has been quite a while since I was enrolled in any formal academic program that had a traditional autumnal start, and yet I still feel deeply connected to this mindset.
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