Month: February 2013

  • Although I am a football fan, this isn’t going to be a sports post. Last night’s game was surprising and exciting in many ways — Har-brothers?! Jacoby Jones?! Blackout?! 3 TD comeback?! — but what I want to talk about today are the commercials. And Beyonce’s halftime show. And the way we perceive each of…

  •   That last picture of Riley is part of what I sent to Noah, a 12-year-old boy suffering from bullying and depression, whose mother made an appeal for letters of encouragement. If you can spare a moment, maybe you’d like to send him a note too.