Punk It Up!

My 17-year-old son is a High School senior, and he's shopping for colleges.

I've been an active runner for a long time.

I was digging through old files, and found the essay I wrote when I was applying for admission to UC Santa Cruz.

If you're anything like me, you probably have some amount of trouble keeping up with your tasks.

I'm a parent of elementary school kids, aged 6 and 9.

Many women are chiming in for #MeToo, to raise awareness about the common experience of being sexually assaulted or harassed.

My family and I went apple picking today.

I've been active politically for my entire adult life.

I spent the past week in San Francisco, not attending Apple's WWDC, but rather basking in the periphery of it.

If you're not familiar with the podcast Song Exploder, I encourage you to check it out.

Catching up with the Roderick on the Line podcast, episode 187 includes a discussion of the temperament of musical instruments.

I've described my running habit before, wherein I run "every other day," more or less without fail.

I finally got around to reading the widely-celebrated New Yorker article about Megan Phelps-Roper and her departure from the Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group based in Topeka, Kansas.

I was a sprinter as a kid: I counted myself among the fastest runners in my grade-school classes, and would routinely challenge friends to ad hoc dashes across arbitrary stretches of playground grass or asphalt.

I like pizza.

I was moved to write a Yelp review for a particularly good Dunkin' Donuts (767 Cromwell Avenue, Rocky Hill, CT).

For most of my life, I have borrowed hours from the late night and early morning, paying off the debt by either sleeping lavishly through the day, or coping with the zombie-making effects of sleep deprivation.

A perfect day in Brooklyn.

Taking a stand on new TSA policies that require passengers to choose between x-ray body scans or invasive pat-downs involving genital contact:

Aol has wasted no time in rebranding their new property.

I'm listening to the audiobook of Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story, set in an approximate dystopian future where, among other things, youth lingo has evolved even further along its current trajectory towards what Wikipedia classifies as SMS lan…

We are pretty lucky here in Ditmas Park to have access to several nice restaurants, some of which double as cafes.