“Being a CEO is tough because you’re in a meeting from 9 to 10—internal meeting—this design is wrong. 10:00, there’s a customer. 11:00, there’s an interview. 12:00, there’s an employee quitting that you don’t want to quit that was not on your schedule, and you’re eating while you’re dealing with that, so you better not […]| The Last Word On Nothing
How have you been sleeping lately? Me, not so great. I do fine during the days, mostly. But then I wake up at 3 or 4 a.m. worried about what’s happening in the world. Here are some strategies I use for distracting myself and getting back to sleep. Maybe they’ll be useful for you? You […]| The Last Word On Nothing
My last post in July was about a court case in New York state where a judge decided a dog who had been killed by a negligent driver could be considered “immediate family” under the law, enabling the family to seek damages beyond the monetary value of the dog. One of the things I find […]| The Last Word On Nothing
Dear readers: Everything is (once again?) terrible. At least in this country. It feels like a roller coaster descent into the worst parts of history. My brain spends its days vacillating between wild panic and stubborn denial. I guess what I’m saying is this: I’ve got nothing for you unless you want a funeral wail […]| The Last Word On Nothing
Last week my family traveled to Oregon for an end-of-summer trip. We wanted to start in Bend, in the central part of the state. There we would hike and explore a bit—somewhat to her dismay, I was especially eager to take my daughter up South Sister, one of the Three Sisters volcanoes—before driving down to […]| The Last Word On Nothing
There is not a lot that keeps me online nowadays, but one thing is color. For like, walls, in a house. I am still in a grief-triggered painting phase, just like my grandmother was once in a grief-triggered drapery phase, because changing the appearance of one’s house is a thing to do that is at […]| The Last Word On Nothing
Image from “American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits” (1889)Happy spider mating season! I keep finding baby spiders in my shoes, and every morning there are new cobwebs in my car’s steering wheel. Maybe you’re seeing more spiders, too? Our own LWONian Betsy Mason wrote about the noble art of counting spiders for Knowable Magazine last year. And this little post first ran...| The Last Word On Nothing
This is an annual post, with apologies to Colin Nissan. | The Last Word On Nothing