Art and money
Almost 20 years ago, in a fiction workshop, one of my stories centered […]
Category: Miscellaneous
Wild Swans
I went to see Wild Swans, intrigued at a play about the Cultural […]
Anecdotes from a troubled healthcare system
One of the real pleasures of being a Nieman Fellow came after I […]
Additude, happy mistake
One of the students in the Sunday school class I teach wrote as […]
An award for me
As my Nieman year careens towards completion, one thought that sometimes makes me […]
Words new and invented
My new word for the week is ‘chiasmus.’ It means, according to the […]
Word of the day: heteroskedasticity
Heteroskedasticity is the idea, in statistics, that the variance of the standard errors […]
Self-selected Genius
The MacArthur Awards were dominated by people from California and the Eastern Seaboard. […]
Global business and its discontents
Some of the greatest expressions of human creativity come from entrepreneurs. Building even […]
Why Millis should vote for a new library
The people of Millis face a crucial choice on Tuesday – support a […]