Ted Balaker re-ran my college advice on his blog. Welcome to y’all who’re arriving via Ted! 👋

I’m editing a book of King family history, and @ayjay’s Breaking Bread With The Dead has been a welcome companion. It’s yielded a few quotes that may find their way to the top of a chapter: LP Hartley in The Go-Between: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently …

Meet Joseph Ducreux, diplomat-turned-meme-lord. If you’ve spent time on the internet, you’ve seen his “Self-Portrait of the Artist in the Guise of a Mocker:” But I bet you haven’t seen his other oddball gems: “The Silence” “Self-Portrait, …

Wendell Berry, in Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition: It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines. Berry, who’s 90 now, wrote this almost two and a …

“I need a logo for my website!” WRONG.

On Choosing A College: I was invited to be part of a panel about college choices at my alma mater. Not knowing how much time I’d have to share, I decided to write up my thoughts. I’ve got strong opinions about this. Why should you care what I think? I’ve plowed a lot of ground with my chin. Twenty one years ago, I …