poetics.info

“Reign Over Me,” written and directed by Mike Binder and starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle, is a film about grief—the inconsolable grief that comes from losing the loves of your life unexpectedly and without warning. It’s also about the power of friendship and the important bonds people make that bring meaning to their lives.
Charlie [...]

Today, I attended the last day of the 48th Annual Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival–an amazing showcase of hundreds of talented artists representing the very best in their fields.
The festival winds through historic Winter Park, Florida, along the city’s main thoroughfare, Park Avenue. It’s a very high-energy display of some serious artists who create [...]

I’m very excited to be able to attend my first Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, which is going on this weekend, March 16, 17 & 18. I’ve heard great things about this event, and I’m looking forward to browsing through the booths in search of new art for my home.
Before I moved here, I read [...]

I think the poem below is remarkable, not only because it was written by a child, but because that child was in a concentration camp when he authored it. It reminds me how resilient we are and how much beauty there really is in the world…If anyone knows anything more about this poem, please share.

He [...]

I can’t recommend the book Blink enough. (I should mention that my friend, Brian Schwartz, recommended it to me.) I actually listened to it on CD, and I highly recommend that experience, as well.
Blink is about–well, Mr. Gladwell, says it best:

It’s a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a [...]