Month: June 2017

These days everybody’s a genius: genius soccer players, genius cooks, genius recipes, genius pornstars, what have you. In other words, it’s a much-degraded word and some have suggested retiring it. But however hackneyed, romanticized, and vaporous the idea is, I suggest that genius is real all the same. Here are some thoughts about it. I’ll … Continue reading “THIS GENIUS THING”

We learn about life and love and art all our lives, in ways expected and unexpected. Here I want to talk about the unexpected revelations, great or small, that hit us when we think we’re doing something else. In downtimes on the set the movie actor Cary Grant used to prowl around tinkering with things: … Continue reading “Epiphanies in Strange Places”