The Deliberate Owl

There is nothing quite like a golden spoonful of honey, right from the comb, spread onto warm sourdough bread.

When someone first referred to my family as "a big family like yours," I only had three kids.

So you want to write a book, but aren't sure exactly where to start.

Grad students are notoriously busy.

This school year, my oldest turned 8.

I've been enjoying tapestry weaving lately.

Every year in the garden, I want to learn something new.

Last year, I discovered that magnolia blossoms are edible!

We were in the woods.

"Wait up!

Why bother with a humanities education?

I'm running for Mayor.

You have been elected to your local city council.

When you apply to graduate schools, you may have the opportunity to choose between multiple programs at different schools.

When I was a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab, the informal department slogan was "demo or die".

Sometimes, a wall calls out for a taxidermy moose head.

The street felt alive with sound and motion.

Yes, you can have a baby in graduate school.

We live in an attention deficient era.

Around our suburban homestead, we're preparing for winter.

There's nothing quite like spreading a gleaming spoonful of honey and comb, just scooped from the hive, onto a slice of fresh, warm bread.

This is post #162 for me!

Thinking about homeschooling?

byJennifer Barr, Jacqueline Kory-Westlund, Alex Lancaster, Emily Monosson and Bryan Quoc Le This post originally appeared on the Ronin Institute Blog on April 7, 2023 Questions, answers and other thoughts from Ronin Research Scholars and writers In January

While I was in full-time academia as a grad student, September meant the switch from summer work (research studies, writing papers, writing code for robots) to semester work—more research studies, more writing papers, more code, and also classes, group pr…

After we finished our garage-to-living-room renovation project, I found myself staring at the walls.

"I sensed that I belonged to a broader community of human beings than the community of scholars.

Detroit was the first American city to redesign itself around automobiles.

For a recent camping trip, we put together this easy yet awesome camp sink/dishwashing station!

Our suburbs are broken.