Living in the Denver metro, I was lucky enough to be in the path of the annular eclipse that raced across a chunk of our continent this past Saturday. Last time I experienced anything remotely like it was back in 2017, when we made a trip down to Nashville for the total solar eclipse. In … Continue reading On the weird light of an eclipse
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On living somewhere without a sense of place
I didn’t know that a sense of place was important to me until I moved to Colorado a few years ago. It’s an odd premise—a sense of place. It’s hard, impossible even, to define precisely what I (or anyone else, for that matter) means when invoking it. But however we try to pin it down, … Continue reading On living somewhere without a sense of place
On 7 things from last week (7/24/23)
A new deck. Over the past eight days, I’ve embarked—in the good company and far more capable and qualified hands of my father in law—on a major deck renovation. Wish me luck! The joy of a dumpster. Enlightened (Season 1). Excited to have dug up this gem of a show, co-created by Mike White and … Continue reading On 7 things from last week (7/24/23)
On 7 things from last week (7/17/23)
Kubb. I completed my latest woodworking project this past week: the oddball wood-chucking game kubb. Strider. Aster watching my toddler attempt to climb and ride my very adult-sized bike, we decided that a strider was just the thing. Baby poop. Is hard to get out of clothing. But it’s possible! Learning more about InDesign. 3D … Continue reading On 7 things from last week (7/17/23)
On considering afterlives
I raced through David Eagleman's Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives this past week. What a great and strange book. Eagleman presents 40 brief descriptions of “afterlives”—some with a god (or gods), others that tweak the concept of heaven or hell, a few with extraterrestrials, and some that I can’t possibly categorize. It’s those that … Continue reading On considering afterlives
On 7 things from last week (6/12/23)
Filing documents. A parental leave project of mine was to finally get all of our “household documents” in order. Car titles, cat vaccination info, tax documents… It was infernally boring but oh-so-relieving to have gotten done. Family road trip. We completed our first long family drive last week. A childless couple would have taken 6.5 … Continue reading On 7 things from last week (6/12/23)
On antimetabole
A showy device, if you can manage it, antimetabole is a rhetorical device that sets two parallel phrases against each other while inverting the position of key words. The antimetabole structure looks like this: A...B / B...A A simple example would be: I know what I like, and I like what I know. "I know" … Continue reading On antimetabole
On fever dreams
Aside from intentional intoxication—alcohol, marijuana, or the like—there is nothing so destabilizing as a fever dream. Normally, there's a dividing line between dreams and consciousness—the oddity of a dream shatters on waking, shards suddenly incomprehensible, impossible to consider real. Not so with fever dreams. When the brains runs hot, I suppose the capacity to crack … Continue reading On fever dreams
On why teaching is a tough skill to learn in the workplace
The idea brought to mind a quote from management consultant David Maister: Knowledge is relatively easy to accumulate quickly, but it also depreciates quickly. Skills are hard to win, but keep their value a little longer. If we asked Maister our questions, I imagine he would say: It depends. What parts of your job rely … Continue reading On why teaching is a tough skill to learn in the workplace
Orienting myself out in the world
Having recently read through two of Tristan Gooley's "how to read" books—How to Read Nature and How to Read Water—I have spent the past couple of weeks in awe of how little I notice about the natural world around me. (A few months ago, after reading Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing, I felt similarly … Continue reading Orienting myself out in the world
Taylor Coe 