• The power of powerlessness
  Dec 4

• The end is where we start from
  Nov 21

• The worth of life is at stake
  Nov 16

• Creating a self and world through reading
  Nov 13

• Hope in times of despair
  Oct 25

• The burden of advertising
  Oct 22

• The wonder of a child
  Oct 14

• Vanity, vanity everywhere
  Oct 7

• Active reading
  Oct 4

• One's universe is built on trust
  Sep 12

• Reading alters the reader
  Sep 7

• Wrapping up a life of reading
  Aug 27

• Balancing physical work with intellectual work
  Aug 19

• Taking note (as in note-taking) can change oneself and the world
  Aug 14

• Human fragility
  Aug 14

• Ephemerality
  Aug 13

• Tribal nationalism
  Aug 7

• Writing abstracts the embodied concrete
  Aug 2

• Understanding, frameworks, and interpretation
  Jul 25

• Responding to an assassination attempt
  Jul 14

• Responding to Project 2025
  Jul 14

• How many words does it take?
  Jul 8

• Looking for news about Trump
  Jul 8

• Adventures in the used bookstore
  Jul 7

• Living in the US and looking for hope
  Jul 6

• More on US election – challenge to democracy
  Jul 5

• Joe Biden 2024: Should he stay or go?
  Jul 4

• Search Engine Optimization
  Jun 30

• Forgiveness and creativity
  Jun 29

• Stability in an unstable and destabalizing world
  Jun 24

• Life is embodied network
  Jun 21

• Political parties and polarization
  Jun 21

• Sophisms past and present
  Jun 20

• Note to self: Topics and themes to think about
  Jun 20

• Reading Arendt and Solnit
  Jun 5

• The power of conversation (and hope)
  May 15

• The power of hope
  May 15

• Remembering my mother
  May 12

• Living without a home
  May 11

• Too many details, not enough story
  Apr 5

• Missing the story for the details
  Apr 5

• Live and let live
  Mar 28

• On studying Kant
  Mar 17

• Chance meetings and the forming of an identity
  Mar 13

• The more refined the error, the more obscured the truth
  Feb 17

• Cars and the trolley problem
  Jan 25

• Why we do what we do
  Jan 20

• Reading list revisited
  Jan 18

• A perspective on the moment
  Dec 23

• Depressing utopias
  Dec 23

• Will you join me at the ActivityPub?
  Dec 21

• Where do we go when we retire?
  Dec 21

• The danger of political parties
  Dec 20

• Culture, the world, and fictive constructions
  Dec 20

• More thoughts about the NTBR pile
  Dec 19

• The cost of speaking the truth
  Dec 19

• Bookstores, value and scarcity
  Dec 18

• From the TBR pile to the NTBR pile
  Dec 18

• Finding a writing topic
  Dec 17

• Reading Plan: December 2023 through February 2024
  Dec 14

• September to November Reading
  Dec 14

• To die is to pass into fiction
  Dec 7

• Emerging mysteries with aging
  Nov 30

• Parts of a whole
  Nov 12

• Stop with the procrastinating, already!
  Nov 5

• Witticism as Criticism
  Nov 3

• The risks of freedom
  Oct 31

• Remembering Joe Stamey
  Oct 30

• On (not) reading Kant
  Oct 25

• A 'Good Society' supports dutiful action
  Oct 10

• Stories make a life
  Sep 30

• There's reading, and then there's reading
  Sep 16

• Reading Plan: September through November 2023
  Sep 7

• The fuzzy line between fiction and non-fiction
  Sep 6

• It takes as long as it takes
  Sep 5

• Summer reading recap
  Sep 3

• Happiness as by-product rather than end
  Sep 3

• Freedom to chew over odd ideas
  Aug 26

• The worst of times, the best of times
  Aug 20

• Why study philosophy?
  Aug 15

• Confronting again the question why do I blog
  Aug 12

• Wondering about wondering
  Aug 11

• Arendt, Kant, and Judgment
  Aug 7

• Social insecurities and FOMO, 1954 version
  Aug 7

• The bonds of reading
  Aug 6

• Grief and regret
  Aug 6

• Making a reading plan
  Aug 6

• The practice of writing
  Aug 1

• Respecting tradition at the Holocaust Museum
  Aug 1

• On turning 70
  Jul 26

• The Past in the Present
  Jul 24

• Smells of the past
  Jul 16

• The companionship in reading
  Jul 16

• The benefits of luck
  Jul 10

• Living in the current crisis
  Jul 9

• Crises, past and present
  Jul 9

• 20 books of summer update
  Jul 9

• Independent cells or cells in community?
  Jun 24

• Are we consumers of our lives or products of them?
  Jun 22

• Why is it so hard for us to change course?
  Jun 21

• Ego, emptiness, and rebirth
  Jun 16

• Looking for hope wherever I might find it
  Jun 14

• On the validity of the biblical text
  Jun 14

• Whitehead on reading Kant
  Jun 12

• Human "progress" and nature
  Jun 12

• Random thoughts while reading Elisa Gabbert
  Jun 8

• It looks as if…
  Jun 7

• 2023 Books of Summer
  May 31

• On managing aristocrats
  May 25

• Lewis Thomas on Altruism
  May 24

• Longevity challenges – self and climate
  May 19

• Writing (or not) without a deadline
  May 18

• The price of books
  Apr 29

• Revisiting the pasts in the present
  Apr 18

• Genes: fate and choice
  Apr 14

• Cycling: Inside or outside?
  Apr 14

• So many words, so little time
  Mar 5

• The value of civilization
  Mar 4

• Living an entirely private life is a deprivation
  Mar 2

• Of a certain age …
  Feb 27

• Reason, properly understood, is public and sharable
  Feb 26

• Purpose vs goals
  Feb 26

• ChatGPT: Point and Counter-point, etc
  Feb 21

• Self interrupting the self
  Feb 21

• Brokenist or Status-quoist?
  Feb 5

• Writer's block
  Feb 5

• Teaching as thinking in public
  Feb 2

• Bertrand Russell on dictators
  Feb 2

• Nazis and socialists (and the KKK)
  Feb 1

• My experience is what I attend to
  Jan 31

• The burden of writing
  Jan 30

• FOSS and plain text
  Jan 30

• What to read in retirement
  Jan 29

• Cognition and locomotion
  Jan 29

• Totalitarianism, Perfection, and Oppression
  Jan 28

• All the beauty and the bloodshed
  Jan 28

• Why write and why blog?
  Jan 27

• Reading (and translating) one’s past writings
  Jan 26

• Sharing a microbiome
  Jan 26

• Reading is its own reward
  Jan 25

• Courage to write
  Jan 25

• Social media from the quiet corner of the room
  Jan 24

• Rigging the algorithm on TikTok
  Jan 23

• Academic departmentalization and teaching mentality
  Jan 19

• Lived life and stories
  Jan 16

• Isn’t it nice to be home again?
  Jan 5

• Writing when empty
  Jan 5

• The luxury of yearning for less
  Jan 4

• Supply chain weirdness
  Jan 2

• Getting started
  Jan 1

• Jan 1