Minibabble: Don’t look at the tree!
When I learned to ride a motorcycle, the instructor gave one of those specific pieces of advice that end up being applicable to life in general: “Your bike will go….
Category: Health
Minibabble: Making music together = moving toward the good
Making music together = keeping time together
We often talk about “spending” time with friends, but how about keeping time? When we make music together, we literally interact with the time that we’re “spending,” keeping it, beat by beat, as a shared resource. There’s really no other [public] activity that we can do with other humans that allows us to interact in this way: when we play music, our bodies move in sync, our mouths say words together or in response, we are literally joined together in time.
A Walk Through Santa Cruz, or In Defense of Liberals
I was ambivalent about going anywhere on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, this year otherwise known as Inauguration Day. It seemed like the two events were canceling each other out….
Minibabble: Thinking about greed in the redwoods
This is an unusual version of “Just me, talking to you.” In this case, I recorded my thoughts while walking in the redwoods. It’s largely unedited (I took out a….
“This dysfunctional town square” with TV producer Stephanie Jacobs
Stephanie Jacobs has had a long career covering elections for CBS News. But it wasn’t until she moved to California and became a California girl that politics became personal.
Minibabble: I can’t say I failed
A couple of months ago, my fellow K-Squid programmer, Debra Sloss, asked me to help with an episode of her show, State of Mind. She’d received some beautiful, thoughtful pieces….
Play Like a Girl (or not) with Brenda Laurel
In this conversation with Brenda Laurel, we explore how girls play and what that means for women and game designers. We talk about the relationship between theater and gaming, and how the gaming world grew to change the way children live and develop. We talk about the importance of teaching. But most of all, we talk about what it means to be a creator in this world, someone who asks others to entrust their minds to our work.
Minibabble: Vote for women’s health
I was driving in my car to a rehearsal. Michelle Obama’s speech had been playing on the radio when I started the car and so I kept listening. It was….
Wiring the Mind for Love: Melding science and faith with neuroscientist Nicole Tetreault
“Every time I danced, I thought about the gratitude I had to move my body when simultaneously my mother was bound to a wheelchair. It shifted my perspective on the gift of life.”….
Minibabble: Tapping that Well of Goodwill with Karin Tamerius
How do we talk to people on the other side of the political divide? It used to be commonplace—Americans lived, worked, and went to school with people from a mixture….