I received a hard copy yesterday of my recently completed book, and immediately found cause for distress. Organized into 26 tidy little sections, I’d seen cause at some point to swap “SEVEN” and “EIGHT,” but apparently managed only to retitle the former. So, the book proceeds painfully—in size 26 point headers—from 5 to 6 to … Continue reading On missing the big mistakes
Author: T Coe
On unlearning and my first InDesign experience
Learning is hard; unlearning is harder. As I've paged through Real World Adobe InDesign CC, I've had a painful realization: I need to unlearn lots of what I thought I knew. The specifics are both boring and embarrassing, so I'll leave them aside. What I will speak to is one (now evident) downside of my … Continue reading On unlearning and my first InDesign experience
On recreation as re-creation
A few years ago—and, no, I have no recollection what I was writing about—I typed out a thought that involved needing to create something over again, something that had already been created. I looked real close at one of the words in that thought. Huh. Recreate? Re-create? Well, of course! It’s a lovely, if obvious, … Continue reading On recreation as re-creation
On thinking (wrongly) that there was no more for me to learn about InDesign
On a whim, I picked up Real World Adobe InDesign CC at the library a few months ago. It turns out that the bulky 2013 publication—it's over a decade old!—was not in high demand in the Jeffco Public Library system. It sat, unread, for many weeks on my kitchen counter, literally gathering dust as the … Continue reading On thinking (wrongly) that there was no more for me to learn about InDesign
On connecting reading time with real world events
I've been slowly working through Ed Yong's An Immense World—a magnificent overview of the world of animal senses (and how mightily they differ from ours), and was bowled over by a technique he deploys in a section about how the amazing touch sensitivity of sea otters helps them locate food on the sea floor: Imagine … Continue reading On connecting reading time with real world events
On John Dewey’s Experience & Education
I picked up this slim treatise—the cover copy calls it “the great educational theorist’s most concise statement of his ideas about the needs, the problems, and the possibilities of education”—after encountering a wonderful quote in Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death. What surprised me is that this this book, despite being published in 1938, manages … Continue reading On John Dewey’s Experience & Education
On 7 things from last week (7/10/23)
Centennial Cone Park. Every time I've attempted to hike this lovely mountain park, it's been on a "bike-only" day. But no bikes during the week! A really beautiful view from up there. Prickly pears in bloom. I noticed them on this hike—and then started seeing them in neighbors' yards! A very pretty bloom. Short work … Continue reading On 7 things from last week (7/10/23)
Ebook announcement! On twenty-six CDs I found cleaning out my 2009 Subaru Outlook after a car accident
Woo! After months of fussing, I have finally completed a brief book of essays inspired by an old CD case I found after my car was totaled last May. Here's the introduction: A few days after the accident, we drove to the auto body shop to say goodbye. The adjuster had totaled the car—the repairs … Continue reading Ebook announcement! On twenty-six CDs I found cleaning out my 2009 Subaru Outlook after a car accident
On being a normal dad and getting compliments from strangers
“Super dad here!” The male cashier’s comment threw me. Super dad? I was in the local King Soopers on a Friday afternoon with my five-month-old son and a stroller-ful of groceries. Three weeks earlier, I was pushing the stroller listlessly around the aisles of a Byzantine antique store when a passing older woman commented: “What … Continue reading On being a normal dad and getting compliments from strangers
On people telling you about TV episodes you’ve never seen
My mom didn't let us watch a lot of TV growing up. While today I'm thankful for the enforced abstention, this withholding really irked me at the time. I felt I was missing out—recess and lunchtime conversation invariably surfaced movies and television shows I'd never seen. Remember when [that hilarious thing] happened on [television show]? … Continue reading On people telling you about TV episodes you’ve never seen
Taylor Coe 