Where would you like to go today?
At least part of the original intent behind creating this blog site was to keep a travelogue—somewhat brief trip reports with selected photos, to help preserve the memories. Well, good intentions pave the road to you know where. Turns out I am too busy. Or too lazy. Or both. And yet memories fade too quickly…
I had a thought this morning that seemed profound, or at least worth writing down before I forget. The thought was simple: gaining knowledge means adding something, while gaining wisdom means subtracting something. This is easy to illustrate. When you learn something new, you read a book, listen to a lecture, or attend a talk,…
This is a brief linguistic essay following up on some thoughts and conversations I had while visiting my home city of St. Petersburg, Russia, two weeks ago. As usual, I had just one week and too many things to do. Therefore, I decided that I would meet only with family and a selected few of…