Today’s sketch: Farm to Table

  “Tomatoes are the all star of the farm-to-table world. But in fact, they’re like the Hummers of the vegetable world. That’s because they require more water and nutrients from the soil than a lot of other vegetables. At the end of the day what we need to support is all of the farming decisions that …

Technology for the Birds

I am not a birder (though it seems like a great hobby) but I was interested in the article about the Birding World Series in the NYT this weekend. Old school birding is bumping up against new technologies like bird watching apps.  It strikes me as a tension between two styles of learning. The “old school” style …

Mother’s Day

I love being Huck’s mom. But I don’t really love being a parent. Strangely these two feelings  exist simultaneously without canceling each other out.          

Run on the Bank

        Urs Fischer installation inside a former branch of Chase Bank on Delancey Street    

Story of my Life

Huck and have  been dealing with that perennial scourge of school children. And I was thinking…        

Je t’aime Je t’aime by Resnais

  Man’s main purpose on the planet is to make life comfortable for cats, explains Catrine to Claude in a scene from Alain Resnais’s Je t’aime Je t’aime.  When you think about it, her theory is a remarkably calming one. This conversation is one of many moments of his past Claude revisits via a time travel …