praise Allah…

but first tie your camel to a post. This picture was taken 4 leap years ago, in 2008, during a trip to and through the Sahara.

radical

It recently came to my attention that the root of the word “radical” is, um, “root.” More precisely, it’s “radix,” which means “root” in Latin. I find it intriguing, as I generally think of radical…

what I’m reading

Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks This is a soothing book for those of us who feel we have so much to do that we’ll never get it all done. Soothing, because, well – guess what?…