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‌I don’t know what success means. I never have. If I’ve had any, I’ve rarely felt it. But by most metrics I’m aware of, I haven’t had that much. Of course the way you measure how well you’ve done has a lot to do with what your expectations are and that’s one of my mainContinue reading “Success”

‌A couple weeks ago my friend Don invited me to his office at Columbia College to take a look at the wall across from his desk. He’s been teaching writing there for twenty years and decided his workspace needed a bit of a facelift. His room is in a rabbit warren of similar little roomsContinue reading “Ask me about how I can beautify your workplace”

I was waiting in the lobby of the Art Institute for Mark to walk me through the new Saul Steinberg show when a man giving directions to some visitors caught my eye. I’d been spacing out for about fifteen minutes, just watching groups of out-of-towners bicker with each other before the ticket-takers when I sawContinue reading “Old Friend”