What is the point of art in the AI era? What is the point of writing? These questions are on the minds of every creative.

I love reading David Foster Wallace’s essays on tennis. Recently his essay on Tracy Austin struck a note.

Captain Ahab is here to share his wisdom with entrepreneurs everywhere.

“The Party” by Jamaica Kincaid is one of the most unusual and most powerful children’s books I have read in a long time. But what is it about?

It’s not very often that you can experience art without any preconceptions from awards or reviews. I experienced the pure joy of Doug Salati’s “Hot Dog” without having any idea that it had won the 2023 Caldecott Medal.

To read Jean Jullien’s illustrated children’s book of “Imagine” is to achieve the kind of transcendent, dismantled experience that John Lennon depicted in his iconic song.

I am so surprised that I have become the kind of person who uses oversized paper punches. But I’ll never go back.

When the dachshund sees the books in the bookstore window, he wants to know: “How much is that bookie in the window?”

A trip to Costco turns into guaranteed delirium.

When I wear red lipstick I think I look like a breezy French girl riding her bicycle around the streets of Paris. The reality is something very, very different.

It was the slap heard ‘round the world! Everybody, from everywhere, is talking about Will Smith’s 2022 Oscar slap. This fresh, new ESL lesson plan encourages intermediate English learners to discuss the events and become more conversationally fluent.

I have a love-hate relationship with free beauty samples, and no matter what, I always seem to land in the same free beauty product loop.

An official PSA about how to pronounce my last name.