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First of all, merry Christmas…

As I’ve mentioned before, the concept of thankfulness is a strange one for agnostics–not because we don’t feel the emotion, of course, but because we’re not sure what we’re thanking. The Great Unknown Cosmic? Impersonal luck? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? Take your pick. All I know is, there are times when I feel grateful to…

When I was a junior in high school, I decided I wanted to be the kind of guy who was able to speak French…

Hi, all! I’m not sure what the Volcano will choose to do with my review of SPSCC’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. It’s tricky because I was invited on short notice and my usual editor is on a much-deserved European vacation. The show only runs one more weekend so, for the time being at…

I’ve spent the last two months busting my hump on a massive assignment for my day job, which explains why I haven’t been updating this blog. It also explains why my spine remains torqued into a question mark and I spend half each night applying the binomial theorem in my sleep. But! I finished that…

She wanted to know was how it felt to be 45, meaning how is my thinking and emotional nature different from hers. Of course, I’m about as different from a 30-year-old German-born yoga enthusiast as I am from your average bonobo, so I didn’t know where to begin. Instead, I thought about ways I may…

Hey, there, friends, it’s been a while. Many of you are Facebook friends or follow me on Twitter (@carvwriter), so you know where I’ve been. For the rest of you, I’ve been concentrating on other projects…

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in the wake of a tragedy is to look inward..