Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
Yesterday it was St. Patrick day and we fully enjoyed it. In the morning we crossed a white Central Park to go to the St. Patrick’s day parade on 5th avenue. I was impressed by the high number of black and asian Irish parade participants. It was cold and windy, and after 5 hours...
In my twisted, contradictory, conflictual way I really love Rome and I always will....
Who ever said that New Yorkers are rude? I’ve been in NYC a little bit more than a month and I’ve been rescued, helped, advised, and even received medical attention by total strangers, without me ever having to ask for help. It started with the young woman who saw me trying to buy a...
Clive Thompson’s...
Paradise, Pennsylvania, saw the nation’s third deadly school shooting in a week and the second that targeted female students. A 32-year-old man who was “acting out to achieve revenge for something that happened 20 years ago,” let the boys leave, tied the girls, all between 6 and 13 years old, and then shot them...
I’ve tried to write a post on 9/11 for the past two days and I couldn’t. Today, I kept CNN’s replay of the September 11, 2001 broadcast on the entire day. I thought that the emotional grip of these images would be lighter after five years. I was wrong. On September 11, 2001 it...