I realized this week that my sister Kat’s boyfriend Reid is fearless.
Reid climbs in his spare time, so he likes hanging off of cliffs with his fingernails, but now I know he will also brave a foot of snow to pick up his girlfriend’s sister (thank you, Reid) at the airport.
Here’s our ride [...]

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
rating: 3 of 5 stars
I think of Malcolm Gladwell books as a sophisticated guilty pleasure.
He Who Must Name Patterns is the darling of airport bookstores (which I think amuses him; there is a part on airplane crashes in Outliers that is difficult to read on a flight, similar to beginning [...]

I’ve posted the below review on the Goodreads site; of all the spooky literature I crave in October, this play might be my favorite.
Proof: A Play by David Auburn

My review on Goodreads

rating: 4 of 5 stars
“Proof” is ideal for the witching hours of the night, when you cannot sleep, idly [...]

I’ve joined the Goodreads book community, and I may post a review on kthread from time to time. Below is the first review I’ve written for the site, which is a very active community of readers and reviewers. Let me know if you’d like me to send the book to you now that I’ve finished [...]

The best way to see Chicago skyscrapers might just be from a gondola on the ferris wheel at Navy Pier.

John and I ascended to see the late Friday afternoon skyline, which John perhaps would have preferred to see from the ground,
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In recognition of Captain America’s return to Charlottesville, we deemed this past Saturday America Day II: Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through.
Like last year’s first America Day, we determined to spend the day doing very American things; this time, relating to music.
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Friday after work, my colleague Jen and I went to the collective show Artomatic (2121 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA), conveniently located across the street, to support two of the talented people we work with, Mal Jones and Chris Bishop.

Last spring Peter Kline of the UVA MFA program read two triolets (a poetic form in iambic tetrameter with the rhyme scheme ABaAabAB that was new to me) at our graduate conference. The first two lines are also the last, but their meaning the second time has shifted slightly. The first line is repeated half-way [...]

The worst buzzword of late (intertwingling) and thoughts about Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability.

Top ten books I have given as gifts.