Category: Writing
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Generational gaps
My grandma opened a laptop a few weeks ago. Well, my father opened the laptop in front of her, while she sat peering through thick glasses, her hands curled in her lap. The screen booted up, and my grandma sat silently for a moment. Then, looking at my father, she gestured at the keyboard and…
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A Narrow Bond
There is a term in movies when the music the audience hears is heard by the characters as well. It’s called diegetic music. It’s a rare moment in cinema when audience and character are experiencing the same thing in the same moment – it creates a bond, if just for a moment. As if the…
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News of the World
“In a brief statement Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He-Who-Must-Not-Be Named has returned to this country and is active once more. “It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord – well, you know who I mean – is alive and among us again,” said…
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The Glass Age
First came the stone age. Then the bronze age. Followed by the short lived iron age. And finally the steel age. The accursed plastic age threatens to swallow us today. But an argument can be made – if the measure of an age is judged by a material’s use in the key technology of the…
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Hand Painted Signs
I spent the morning watching a documentary on sign painters – talking through the history, art, and future of the industry that is almost invisible to us today. Now, a very small industry full of people with a common goal: painting beautiful signs. They are a bunch of cooks. Some lovable, some not. All extremely…
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The Art of the Find
On a rare scroll through Twitter the other night, I stumbled across a blog I’d never seen before. Created by a designer and web developed named Reagan Ray. Reagan is a curator. He collects things he loves, category by category, and shares them with the world. From famous Texans, to comic book super hero lettering,…
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Sensory Overload and the Power of Silence
A couple nights ago, I was sitting at the dinner table with my sister and her partner when we got onto the topic of autism. A popular YouTuber I liked shared a video a day or two before about his son who has autism, hoping to raise awareness and spread some of the beauty that…
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Imaginary Instruments
I’ve had a couple tedious work days in a row. The kind that felt like I could not, for the life of me, figure out a solution to the problem I was working on. The sort of hours spent pondering how anyone could every possibly be so pitiful as to pay you for anything you…
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Big Purchases
After describing the arduous car-purchasing process I had just been through, a friend of mine congratulated me then said “I think we regret small purchases way more often than big ones.” I don’t regret buying my computer. Or buying my second car. I do regret the $40 Carhart overalls, and the $4 cardigan. I don’t…
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The Perfect Desk
Long, long desks give you all the room you need. To lay things out, side by side. A desk that stretches all the way across the room never feels cluttered or mismanaged. Everything has its place. Everything together in one space. With a long, long desk, you’ll finally be able to get that writing done.…