(Listen to this post, here.) I don’t know how it began; I must have clicked on something. Because suddenly, in addition to the familiar scraps filling up my Instagram feed – NBA highlights, home maintenance tips, Key and Peele clips, male incontinence remedies (it’s for a friend) – I suddenly began seeing people doing card tricks. I don’t know why, but there they were. One day, I watched this one. I know, pretty amazing. But what’s most interesting – and the woman in the video says this right at the beginning – […] Click to read more…

(Listen to this post, here.) Like many people, I cancelled my gym membership as soon as Covid arrived. Since then, I’ve been working out in my basement.  It’s certainly convenient – but it’s also pretty solitary.   And, having given up on basketball last month (once the other players start calling you “sir,” it’s time to retire), it occurred to me that I had lost my one remaining group exercise activity.  So I went out the next week and joined a new gym.   This place, however, is decidedly different from the anonymous, swipe-your-card-at-the-front-desk-and-do-whatever-you-like gym I had […] Click to read more…