In a recent conversation with my friend, Maribel Cardez, she introduced me to the term, logical empathy. “Well,” I thought, “at the intersection of intellect and emotion, there’s bound to be some uncertainty, if not volatility, no?” I had to look it up, of course. It turns out logical empathy, which may also be referred […]
In a recent conversation with my friend, Maribel Cardez, she introduced me to the term, logical empathy. “Well,” I thought, “at the intersection of intellect and emotion, there’s bound to be some uncertainty, if not volatility, no?” I had to look it up, of course. It turns out logical empathy, which may also be referred […]
As regular readers of this column likely know, Grandpa O’Brien was an inveterate storyteller. And while my father wasn’t quite the storyteller his father was, Dad (his name was Ned) would talk to anyone, anywhere. Depending on your perspective, I seem to have inherited the best — or the worst — from both of them. […]
It’s been a while since I wrote about our moving adventure. That was 2022. We’re now well settled and very happy … most of the time. For most days during the summer, we have the windows closed and the central air on to keep us from the sweltering heat and the stifling humidity. But in […]
In case you don’t have a Facebook account (which is the platform on which I learned the news) — and especially if you didn’t read my earlier post on AI — I need to tell you it’s over. According to the ad I saw, Sudowrite — the best AI writing partner for fiction — is […]
My longtime friend, Jim Carlough, shared an article on LinkedIn recently. The article is from Psychology Today. It’s called, “Why You Shouldn’t Outsource Your Intuition to AI”. And it says this, in part: AI is brilliant. It can analyze vast amounts of data, generate poetry, build business plans, or summarize psychological studies in seconds. I […]
At some point in my wayward youth, it occurred to me that two of the songs I listened to frequently are thematically related. The first is “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor, from his 1970 album, Sweet Baby James. The second is “Too Much Seconal” by Johnny Winter, from his 1973 album, Still Alive and […]
At some point in my wayward youth, it occurred to me that two of the songs I listened to frequently are thematically related. The first is “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor, from his 1970 album, Sweet Baby James. The second is “Too Much Seconal” by Johnny Winter, from his 1973 album, Still Alive and […]
At some point in my wayward youth, it occurred to me that two of the songs I listened to frequently are thematically related. The first is “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor, from his 1970 album, Sweet Baby James. The second is “Too Much Seconal” by Johnny Winter, from his 1973 album, Still Alive and […]
It seems as if I’ve been seeing more and more articles advising us to avoid electronic devices in bed or at bedtime. Because I’m a word-game junkie, because I play Zen Word in bed on my i-Phone to help me relax before falling asleep, and because after I complete a level in the game, I […]
