Parenthood is improvisation. None of us really knows what we’re doing. This is the great dark secret that we fathers and mothers hope to keep hidden from our children for as long as possible. So when challenges arise, it helps to be practiced in the fine art of Looking Like You Know What You Are Doing. When you […]

A while ago, an acquaintance told me a story about an artist who couldn’t leave his apartment to get art supplies because he was taking care of a small child. This temporary immobilization forced him to take up collage − a technique that does not require much space and transforms whatever we have within reach into a vessel of creation. This change ended […]

It all looks a bit like The Truman Show. Like yet another tourist attraction. Watching the traffic, you get the impression of a somewhat chaotic but well-directed performance. There are about five hundred small battery-powered cars and buses here. They drive silently along the narrow streets, delivering goods and shuttling tourists and locals around town. They work, […]