For the lack of better things to do, I have been visiting my dentist lately. The x-ray machine they had looked like it came straight out of the Starship Enterprise. While I was getting my teeth drilled, even though I was sweating profusely and barely managed to not shit in my pants, I could not but . . . Read more

I have heard Matthew Walker talk about sleep, a lot. But I never really took him seriously. I find him preachy and his talks are always exaggerated. The first time I got really curious about sleep is when I heard this talk: One of the silver linings of this depressing lockdown is that this has given . . . Read more

A conference is a good concept in theory but entirely absurd in practice. You take a complete break from your daily life, delegate all your responsibilities to others, hope that your house and your class does not burn down in your absence and head off to some obscure place to listen to strangers giv . . . Read more

Here's something I have been thinking about a lot lately, thanks mostly to my being on the internet almost constantly. We live in a world where we can just google the answer to many of the questions that arise in day-to-day life. This is great in that it is harder to lie about things and this increa . . . Read more

It was Thanksgiving Day and we had gotten lucky. There were three of us driving to the Grand Canyon and exactly three others had canceled their reservations. Our bags packed with food and water, enough to last a couple of days, overjoyed, we started descending the canyon. You walk and you walk, in t . . . Read more

Ever since the lockdown, first thing in the morning, before I can even open my groggy eyes, I check the news. But no more. There is a concept I first heard about on Joe Rogan’s podcast which was an eye-opener. We have our “circle of control” and our “circle of concern”. . . . Read more

I haven’t been able to write enough the past year. That’s because I haven’t been able to read enough the past year. Poem. The joys of teaching at a public university have been a tad too satiating for me, but they have prepared me well for this new social distancing lifestyle. This . . . Read more