Shipwrecked & Comatose

Meme of the day.  People like to argue their unscientific points on the internet using anecdotes. I like how this points out anecdotes aren’t evidence : ### Question for all you parents out there.  When your kids start talking about an imaginary friend, how do you tell if it’s only a harmless fantasy, or a  demon trying to entice your child to kill you in your sleep? ### Is there anything quite so beautiful as opening a Danish butter cookie tin and finding actual cookies inside it? ### There is something so unique about being American and having to deal with the American viewpoint of the world, although that's not always positive.  I was in a meeting at work where an analyst specializing in technological disruptors was talking about the importance of focusing on climate change.  He is British.  He said, "If we don't focus on it, we'll all be dead."  It feels strange, and yet refreshing, to hear someone tell the truth.  In the US, at worse we hear ...

2022 is on the books and it was a good December.  It's time for a long-winded life update.   Theater dominated the month of December as it did in November.  I spent much of November preparing for performance.  December was all about performing.  She Loves Me went through three more weekends of performances.  (My biggest moment on stage.  I loved this dress until I saw this photo and saw it added twenty pounds on me.) It was an exhausting month, but in the end it was worth it.  My goal was to break into a new group and work with a new director.  I reached that goal.   I know in my last post I expressed some conflicted feelings about doing this play.  My feelings remained someone conflicted.  I devoted a large amount of time to this show for a minimum amount of time on stage and not as much cast and crew camaraderie as I have had in other shows.  After a few performances, I began to make peace with that.  Many of ...