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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Visit Me at gDiapers!
Some of you folks have been looking at my pictures for, literally, years. It’s been fun narrating these naps for you and I love what I do here at Naps Happen. This week, however, I get to be like…you...
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Jamie Foehl '99: Billie Jean is not my lover
Billie Jean is a plant. See the blue arrow pointing to the green thing?That's her.I spend a lot of time in the yard killing things (weeding).I bought Billie Jean because I wanted to grow...
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Benjamin Lenzner: a breeze by a bolder.
i wonder.one day will a breeze blow and tumble this stone bolder down below?adirondack high peaks, new york state, july 2012.love and health to all...
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Dan Schofer '00
8-29-2012Gillette. 31 minutes. 4 miles.Hot and sunny. Slow and easy run with Marie.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Digital Retro: 10 Sundial & Hourglass Clocks & Watches
Sundials and hourglasses were two of the earliest ways humans developed to mark the passage of time. As better technology has emerged, we’ve all but dropped these reliable gadgets in favor of fancier,...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Shelf Hotel: Revolutionary Approach to Modular Architecture
In the early 20th Century, urban design was under siege by Modernists who thought they had it figured out, but made a critical mistake: setting their ideas in stone (or: glass and concrete) rather...
View ArticleTom Swift: Chief Bender Kittenball Tourney
Reader Betsy McDougall tells me the first annual Chief Bender Kittenball Tournament will be held in White Earth a week from Saturday. Sounds like a lot fun (and plenty of food). Hopefully, my donated...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Golf: Knights Open Season 18th in Golf World Poll
Carleton opens the 2012-13 season ranked 18th in the preseason Golf World/NGCA Division III College Women’s Preseason Coaches’ poll. The Knights, who finished 2011-12 ranked 20th, return a trio of...
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Cheryl Klein: The Editorial Process, Step by Step
(Not the large-scale process, from editorial letter to line-edit to copyedit; but what happens in your brain, letter by letter, word by word, if you too have the editorial bug.)1. Notice that something...
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Kelly O'Brien '12: "Develop a built-in bullshit detector."
“Develop a built-in bullshit detector.” - Ernest Hemingway
View ArticleKelly O'Brien '12: Presumably, direction is dictated by a force. Something we...
Presumably, direction is dictated by a force. Something we can extend a finger to and sayThis is why I do what I do, think what I thinkBut how to reveal a force who’s magnitudeEnvelops the entire...
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Kevin Draper '10: The Perils of the Tactical Man
For all of the shit that David Stern gets as commissioner of the NBA, he is more responsible for the NBA becoming a globally popular league than anybody else, except for maybe that Michael Jordan...
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David Ocker '73: Vexations in Los Angeles
(Listen to a live recording of Vexations while you read.)Vexation n.The act of annoying, irritating, or vexing.The quality or condition of being vexed; annoyance.A source of irritation or...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Photographs from northern Nigeria
The New York Times blog, "Lens," has posted 20 photographs taken by Benedicte Kurzen, a French photographer, taken in the months following the 2011 presidential election.Her photos and commentary offer...
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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Guest Napper #114 – Up All Night
I don’t know about you folks but, as Fall dawns, I am scrambling to keep up with our new schedule. It’s like this complicated jigsaw puzzle of drop-offs, pick-ups, swimming lessons, lunch bunch days,...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Rustic Ruins to Modern Residences: 3 Barn Renovations
Aging barns are often left to simply deteriorate, the stone crumbling, weathered wooden siding falling to the ground. But in their dramatic A-frame silhouettes and wide-open simplicity, some...
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