Speaking Lessons
I. You’re at the port in Jaffa when you see her. It’s a summer night and you’re on a date (of course you are) when you run into some people […]
I. You’re at the port in Jaffa when you see her. It’s a summer night and you’re on a date (of course you are) when you run into some people […]
Life is movement, change, flow. As living things, we crave it. There are many types of flow, some more real, some less. Consumption creates unreal flows. Buying things, using substances […]
I went on a date last week with a poet — dollar oysters in Highland Park. I’d mentioned I’d recently moved back to Los Angeles after a number of years […]
I. On Heroics Since reading The Hero With a Thousand Faces last winter, I have been thinking a lot about myth, narrative, and the philosophy of heroic action (or as […]
A made-up story about made-up people. You’re biking north. Date night. You’ve been seeing Yael for a few weeks now. Every date after the first has been at her apartment, […]
I recently read The Hero With a Thousand Faces while on a visit back home in Los Angeles. It had been sitting on my shelf for well over a decade, but […]
I had an experience that I’d really like to share. I. Overture A number of years ago, when I was living in Mumbai, I briefly fell in with a group […]
This essay is about gender. Specifically, it is an attempt to reconcile a two different perspectives on gender, which in our current cultural moment seem to be in unnecessary conflict. […]