Metaphors and Memories

Memories Morph to Metaphors I had a fun dream last night. One of those that kept restarting after waking up and falling back asleep half a dozen times. I was back in Scotland at the University of St Andrews, where I spent my junior year and where I met my wife,...

John Tyler’s House and Slavery

Today’s topic is… John Tyler’s House. Or alternatively, slavery and historical memory. ‘Cause they’re all kind of jumbled together for me right now. Cradle of (Enslaver) Presidents I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Cradle of Presidents, the Old Dominion,...

Life in the Pre-GPScene Era

Although people have been writing about this for like a decade already, I just read an article about how our complete reliance on turn-by-turn GoogleMaps instructions is rotting our collective hippocampus. That’s a part of our brain that Does Many Important Things,...

John Tyler’s House and Modern Memory

Today’s topic is… John Tyler’s House. Or alternatively, memory and history. ‘Cause they’re all kind of jumbled together for me right now. I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Cradle of Presidents, the Old Dominion, Britain’s first colony (if you don’t count...

‘Member Berries?

We don’t have cable TV in our house. We keep up with whatever we care about—which excludes anything with commercials—by streaming off my MacBook. Kay-Kay isn’t convinced we’re actually saving money, after you add up the fees for internet service, Amazon Prime,...

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