I knew I’d never be able to write much about my mother while she was alive. It would be too complicated and potentially wounding to her, potentially destructive to our relationship. I neve...
https://zoetropic.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/elegy-part-1-evocation/
Most of what we consume online is stuff that has already gone viral. What does this imply? It means that people are mostly only seeing and hearing all the same things that everyone else they know...
https://zoetropic.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/jennifer-lawrence-who/
Imaginary friends populated my youth. In childhood, my sister and I each had an invisible elephant (one pink, one blue) that we’d ride around the col-de-sac. Mythical creatures inhabited my ...
https://zoetropic.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/robin-williams-the-death-of-our-imaginary-friend/
It had been a very long time since I’d been alone in a cemetery. I was walking down a hill into the village of Gavarnie in the middle of the Pyrenees, looking for a good place to sit an...
https://zoetropic.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/here-to-give-ourselves-away/
I don’t think I know very many people who aren’t struggling a lot of the time to feel alive. Sometimes the days, weeks, even months drain by, but they don’t speak to us – they almost don...
https://zoetropic.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/staying-alive-time-for-a-change/
This is Part 3 or a four part series narrating the entire story of the 2014 World Cup as a game fought between the Beautiful Game and the Ugly Deception. I invite you to read (or at least ski...
NOTE: This is a continuation of a previous post on the World Cup in which the tournament is itself one large game played between two sides: The Beautiful Game and the Ugly Deception. If you’...
https://zoetropic.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/world-cup-showdown-part-2-the-narrative-value-of-sports/
(Disclaimer: In this post I may be writing soccer and football synonymously because I’m from the US but live with a South American and we use both terms interchangeably. Deal with it 😉 ...
Have you ever picked up a book that you had read once before, a long while back, and been struck by how different an experience it was reading it a second time? When we repeat an experience man...
https://zoetropic.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/at-home-in-saudade/
The perks of the freelancing lifestyle are numerous – you don’t have to go to an office, you don’t have to get dressed, you don’t have to make smalltalk with your colleagues, and you ge...
https://zoetropic.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/alone-is-not-an-invitation/