Information Wants To Be Free

It’s a tremendous challenge for many of us to be fully present in the current moment.

The Slow Food Manifesto begins with the following two sentences: “Our century, which began and has developed under the insignia of industrial civilization, first invented the machine and then took it as its life model.

Last month, I had the great pleasure of keynoting the CALM (Conference on Academic Library Management) Conference, which is consistently one of my favorites.

I’ve meant to post about this for a while, but one of the book chapters I wrote back in 2023-24 during my sabbatical has finally come out (the other is estimated for early 2027, <sigh…>).

I’m on strike right now, along with thousands of other faculty, academic professionals, and staff at Portland Community College (that’s two unions, friends!).

One author whose newsletter I read avidly is Dr.

Developing a long-term illness, whether chronic or acute, is like being dropped into a country completely unfamiliar to you.

I’m a member of an online support group for the autoimmune condition I have and one of the recently diagnosed people wrote a post about how hard it is to cope with the pain and fatigue alongside their job, parenting, and housework and sometimes they have…

I haven’t written anything in a while because it’s been a really hard few months.

Photo credit: Statue Atlas by PeterKraayvanger on Pixabay This isn’t the essay I was planning to publish next.