“If your plan requires getting picked and you’re not getting picked, you need a new plan. I’m betting it will turn out far better in the end, but yes, indeed, I understand that it’s harder than being anointed. Your talent deserves the shift in...
While visiting Clyde’s dad, we came across a piece of furniture that the family’s owned for decades: a huge analog home stereo. It looks a bit like a varnished coffin on stubby wooden legs. On the left and right of the unit, the huge...
Inspired by trends in Tarot deck publishing from the past few years, I give you Uncle Mark’s Bad Tarot Deck Idea Generator (TM): 1) Write down an adjective 2) Write down a music genre 3) Write down the name of any creature, race, or species...
Author Neil Gaiman, speaking to a (chilly, hostile) audience of publishers at the London Book Fair: “Mammals spend an awful lot of energy on infants … they spend nine months of our lives gestating, and then they get two decades of...
I’ve put three little photo albums online, each of which features just a few photos from our trip to Patagonia. Urban Scenes features photos taken in cities, primarily Santiago and Buenos Aires. Landscapes features pictures we took when out in...
Planning is a good thing … until it becomes an obsessive-compulsive behavior. I recently sat in on a planning session designed to map (in exacting, excruciating detail) what an organization was going to do and define (in exacting, excruciating...
They wander the beach and the hills beyond: thousands and thousands of penguins, in town to mate and molt. It’s like an episode of _The Walking Dead_ — but with penguins instead of zombies. They shuffle. They lurch. They stare. They...
Puerto Arenas, Chile, likes to call itself the southernmost city on the planet. Ushuaia, Argentina, likes to pitch itself as the southernmost town. But nowhere, apart from Antarctica, is further south than Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South...
