news
Not my news, I have none. I'm just waiting for a meeting to start, looking for my shoes, making coffee. That's what I'm doing (waiting, looking, making) while an unhinged...
steinzeitgeist
A collection of writings from the internet's most mysterious people.
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Time
I live with a teenager and an 83-year-old. The teenager is on the precipice of everything. The 83-year-old is constantly casting backwards into the stack of decades that make up a... -
Epistolary
One of my very closest friends from childhood lives on the central coast, in a town I've driven through at least 20 times. We met in nursery school (I can still picture her with... -
Fast
My job is basically this: Ask questions, listen, ask more questions, make a plan. My team had a meeting today with another team within our organization. This other team has a lot... -
Endings
Some old friends are splitting up. The specifics don't matter, really, but they hooked up the same week in college that I met my husband which means I've always kind of pegged our... -
Noir
Reporting live from this noir-tinged week. Dateline: Monday. Today the President of the United States said he might annex Greenland because Norway didn't give him a Nobel Peace... -
Want
Sometimes the first thing that comes into my head when I wake up is something I don't want to do. And then, because apparently this negatively framed thought process works so well... -
Hard
It turns out that it's a lot harder to write a blog now than it was in 2008. In 2008 I had loads of things to say about every possible topic. In 2008, I had a kind of energy that I... -
Not anti-semitism
I listen to a lot of podcasts, mostly about television and film, sometimes books, and occasionally scams and murders. The other day I had a bit of a drive ahead and nothing cued... -
Pigeons
It's very quiet here during the week. Mostly I hear my computer humming, an occasional chainsaw, the hourly airplane. Sometimes I can hear bits of my mom's TV or her voice if she's... -
What this is, is:
A blog. This is a blog. Steinzeitgeist is a play on my name and it literally means Stone Age Spirit. This is also a position statement. An opening gambit. A start. The point of...