Travels with Harley the Dog: Eugene, Oregon

Harley sat in the back seat, panting. He was visibly upset and we had three more hours of driving to go. At the highway rest stop, we got out of the car and  walked him across a muddy grass field, as far away from the traffic as I could get. This was not far — …


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Explaining Donald Trump to Your Foreign Friends and Family

I love living in a globalized society. It means economical Japanese auto engineering, Oscar winning Chilean animation, woolly Irish sweaters… so many other good things the connected world gives us are available right here in my little American liberal ghetto. It means I have friends from France and New Zealand and Canada who show up …


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Portrait of the Artist as an (Older) Woman

ART OF RISK CoverA Conversation with Kayt Sukel, author of THE ART OF RISK

My friend, Kayt, has a new book coming out called The Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution, and Chance. The book discusses risk-taking at the intersection of science and the real world. Kayt asked me for real estate to promote her book and I’m wildly pro-Kayt. Plus, she made it easy, she asked if she could interview me about the idea of  risk and the role it plays in my life, and then, she sent me the transcript.

We had a conversation about creativity, dog ownership, and, oh yeah, risk of course.


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Photo Walks with Harley the Dog

Harley the Dog wants walking twice a day. This is, perhaps, more walking than a lot of dogs get and I tell Harley this when he seems sad. “Harley,” I say, “you get more walkies than many dogs I have met and you get company all day long and maybe you could take a minute …


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Q&A with Harley the Dog

Above:  Harley checks Instagram to see which dogs to follow and which hashtags are hot. Harley the Dog came from out of nowhere, seemingly, and he’s taken the world by storm. He’s regularly recognized at the local coffee house and people from around the planet send him hand knitted sweaters. Who is this wunderpup? Where …


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I’m 52 Today, Ask Me Anything.

I’ve been taking very straight, first thing in the morning self-portraits on my birthday for a few years now. Here’s 52.