by Jeff Hamilton
Entering the house just now from dropping off Nora at pre-school and Charlie at school, I hear the toilet running.
Earlier this morning, Nora up only half an hour after Emily and me, she sits watching a show when Charlie shambles into the living room where the three of us greet him.
“I just had the worst nightmare – not just a bad dream, a horrible dream” – so Emily tugs him toward her, pulling him close, and urges him to tell it out…
by Brenda Yancor
If I hadn’t grown up Mormon, I wouldn’t have gone camping every summer for seven years. I wouldn’t have had any place to throw my 16th birthday party or any guests to invite. I wouldn’t have known what it was like to have a father figure I could look up to and depend on. And I definitely wouldn’t have known what it felt like to belong…
Walking alone down a quiet road is both peaceful and, at times, boring. A couple of weeks ago, as I sat down to rest on the side of Route 1 in Virginia, I decided to take my camera out of my backpack and record the sights and sounds of that lonely highway. In this video, you can hear the crickets and cicadas that have become my companions…
In Squaring Off, Zócalo invites authors into the public square to answer five probing questions about the essence of their books. For this round, we pose questions to Eric Gordon, co-author of Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World…
By Lisa Margonelli
Optimism about technology is more or less a California trait, but it requires some discipline.
Consider Burbank Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s proposal to harvest energy from street surfaces. Gatto’s AB306 instructs the California Energy Commission to research putting vibration sensors in some pavements, and converting the vibrations caused by passing cars to electrical pulses, which ultimately could be used to power road signs or even sold to nearby communities…
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