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January 2016

Rebrand Alert!

Depending on how often you Internet (new verb coined by yours truly; it means to scour the Internet with no real direction or + more

The Texture of Design

When talking about design, so often I lean on buzzwords like grid, structure, layout, typography, rhythm, and scale. All of these are + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

Principal or principle? This is one of those questions that, even after 15 years as a professional writer, can still + more

Look on my Intellect, ye Dummies, and despair!

So. According to science, I’m “intellectually superior” to my coworkers, with “amazing ideas constantly running through [my] genius brain….” And that’s + more

Why Musicians Need Philosophy

In this fascinating piece published by the Future Symphony Institute, Roger Scruton posits that “it is precisely the absence of philosophical reflection that + more

David Bowie, RIP

I picked up David Bowie’s latest, Blackstar, on Friday—the day of its release—and the missus and I spent the better part of the + more

Poetry Break

POSTSCRIPT Seamus Heaney And some time make the time to drive out west Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore, + more

Today in History

Pamela, Lady Campbell, to Emily Eden, January 7, 1821: “I cannot bear Scotland in spite of every natural beauty, the + more

Pixels in My Pocket

I remember when the only photographs I allowed myself to take were with my Cannon SLR 35mm camera—which had to + more

Who Needs Beauty, Anyway?

Kudos to the Spokesman-Review‘s Stefanie Pettit, who sounds the alarm over the “declining into banality” of language. Here’s the money quote: + more

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