81 and looking…

Charles Bello

This past weekend my wife and I had the privilege to spend a lot of time with…

How many colors are really in a rainbow?

Rather than the six or seven you may have learned, your eye…

Say “NO” more.

Life hacks for people pleasers who want to get shit done.

 My Cancer Story

I believe in miracles. I have to believe in it.

Poverty Solved in Four Words

Wherein we take the standard conversation about poverty, lay it out and stomp up and down on it, so that we can finally get somewhere

A (Half) Chinese Girl’s Guide To Dodging Discrimination in Chinese Restaurants

Her: A Movie about Technology

I am a tech & future optimist and this is my review of the movie Her.

Let’s build a naked mole rat colony in space

For science, obviously.

Anecdotes on Departure 

Or The SE Asia Chronicles #1

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ernest Hemingway

Memories from the March on Washington

A conversation with my grandmother about her day in the nation’s capital

Textbooks sometimes have a way of making historical events seem less-than-real. After you’ve heard the stories enough…

3 Things Reddit Can Teach You About Writing Better Headlines

The “Front Page of The Internet” is also…

My favorite albums of 2013

One of the best years of music in recent memory

Your Very Own Drama Channel

Be very careful with your criticism. When you develop a “pet peeve”. When you declare that something is…

Time-management vs energy-management

Do you obsess over getting the time to get all the stuff you want…

Talent and Training

Beyond the Lunch and Learn

Need design inspiration?

Check out my latest side-project

I’m a developer and (wannabe) designer. I love getting lost in gorgeous and innovative designs, few things inspire me more. Therefor I often read blogs, websites and tweets from great designers. Until I…

Young Guns

Two Little Girls in Connecticut

Hungry, Hungry Hustle!

Grit — the great equalizer.

Where is The Sense of Urgency?

The lost behavior in the workplace

Sometimes You Just Need Your Mom

Children develop independence during their high school years, pushing their parents away, learning to stand on their own, which is exactly as it should be. By the time they are in college, they have learned to separate their darks and lights and juggle a busy schedule…

A self-publishing renaissance? Most writers making less than $1k a year

eBooks may provide a new path…

To be or not 2B

The evolution of books and language in a text-heavy world

Freshmore Year

My nine-year-old and I are driving in the heart of the MIT campus and I am pointing out landmarks. Mostly she’s seen the pool where she takes swimming lessons, and she wants to know where the classrooms are.

There Is No Hill

There is only this step

And the water continues its inexorable ascent

With nothing to do but watch

End of a journey

The final chapter of my placement in Cape Town

There Comes A Time In Life….

When We Wonder…

Boobs and Brains — A Friendship Story

Almost nothing was under my control

Almost nothing was under my control. I’d always taken care of myself. I ate right. No fast food for me, except for the occasional burrito from the drive through Mexican place down…

An Interview with Martin Luther King’s Doctor

At age 90, Dr. Quentin Young remembers one patient he had in 1965 particularly…

Black Clothing Lines

A Thing of the Past

Anxiety has no place in this pregnancy!

How much more intense is this going to get?

Loving a Woman You Never Knew

My grandmother passed away this weekend. She was 95 years old. I barely knew her.

This Week in Jarvis Slacks: Critics and “Oblivion” 

When what I think is different than what the…

The Space Around Us

Engaging with physical spaces using digital media

“Man filled with God and God operating through Man . . .”

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights…

Experiencing the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street”

A review of a movie about a stockbroker and his life of stocks, shares and sex ( what a mellow description this is) by a girl that has taken several business ethics classes, was bored in every finance related class and believes that art makes…

We’ve shot a little of everything over the years.

And now we’re giving everything we do a little…

Because I'm not writing for you.

A delayed response & reminder to the question “Why don’t you take…

Hey Mr. Kaepernick: I Still Believe

The last play of the game proved that he’s our future.

That was most painful loss in my career as a sports fan. My 49ers lost in the worst possible way, and I feel sick.