Tomorrow Times 3
Mensa means idiot in Mexican Spanish, an irony I learned from 28 sets of laughing, bilingual lips. My sophomore students would soon...
Trying to Convince Poison Control You’re a Good Parent
You try to sound calm—but not too calm.
When they ask your daughter’s weight, you sound knowledgeable,...
Fragmentation Grenade: The Violence of Hybridity
With thanks to Nomi Stone
Nomi and I come together on hybridity — a form, a site, where disparate elements...
Particles: A Love Story
The theoretical physicist John Bell found that we can’t tear entangled photons apart. Even in region and space, particles can be...
The Accidental Pilgrim
Day one of my synagogue’s Jewish heritage tour and we trudge through Kazimierz, which was until WWII Krakow’s vibrant Jewish quarter. The...