Category Archives: Philosophy

I admit; I have entertained the thought that perhaps one day my brilliant, cutting-edge, witty, indispensable, five-and-a-half year, weekly blog would be discovered. And why not? With only 300 million other blogs out there, and my aggressive “Field of Dreams” … Continue reading →

So if I have conducted 81 interviews from a pool of 189 applicants, and I have an array of application review scores that ranked the applicants from 1 to 189 to determine which 81 I would interview, and I now … Continue reading →

He was loud and gruff; like the self-important businessman in the coffee shop on his cell phone arranging a fate-of-the-world-dependent materials delivery. He was amorphous and suffocating; uncoiling his nebulous, weighty tentacles to slither down my throat and heave the … Continue reading →

In more than five-and-a-half years of weekly written thought, it has seldom reflected strictly selfish personal concerns outside of a larger context. And this week I believe I will build to a larger context before I am through, but I … Continue reading →

In her Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir remembers from her childhood “the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscopic inflorescence of acidulated fruit-drops—green, red, orange, violet—I coveted the colours themselves as much … Continue reading →