Category Archives: United States

Audiobook Orgy Part 2: Green Metropolis

Posted on 03/12/2015 by paulefallon

What is the most sustainable place in the United States? Boulder, Colorado? Davis, California? New York, New York? David Owen, New Yorker writer and master of counterintuitive arguments advocates for the latter. Per capita energy use in New York City is … Continue reading →

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Spring Forward Yoga

Posted on 03/09/2015 by paulefallon

We set our clocks ahead for spring on Sunday. But with the ground covered with several feet of snow, the roads covered with black ice and temperatures below twenty degrees, I couldn’t bike to yoga. So I walked. A single … Continue reading →

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Audiobook Orgy Part 1: Road Trip!

Posted on 03/05/2015 by paulefallon

I went on a road trip – 2400 miles through 11 states in 8 days. Along the way I visited family and gave a few book lectures. But mostly I drove. And listened to audiobooks. I’m drawn to center-left history … Continue reading →

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Sean Penn’s Ugly Words

Posted on 02/23/2015 by paulefallon

Of course the Oscars were long. Of course, the presenter’s cue card jokes fell flat. Neil Patrick Harris, so effortlessly charming at the Tony’s, appeared stiff, even in B.V.D.’s and black socks. Still, Lady Gaga made the most of her … Continue reading →

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W.E.B. DuBois Says it Better than Me

Posted on 02/19/2015 by paulefallon

In Architecture by Moonlight, I struggle to describe my fellow workers. Haitians work ethic is different from ours. I don’t wish to romanticize it, nor imply it’s lesser or greater. Although many find value in my descriptions, the third-world experts … Continue reading →

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Boys, Toys, and Video Games

Posted on 02/16/2015 by paulefallon

I just spent ten days with three boys, aged 8, 7 and 3. Like all children they were cute, surprising, hilarious and exhausting. Their dad, Brad, is an Army Captain deployed overseas; their mother Caitlyn is a deep reservoir of … Continue reading →

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I Give Up: A People’s History of the United States

Posted on 02/12/2015 by paulefallon

I tried to read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, I really did. I slogged through every word of the first hundred pages, and then skipped the (abundant and repetitive) quotations through page 250 to focus on … Continue reading →

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Ten Highlights of Six Hours in Seattle

Posted on 02/08/2015 by paulefallon

I had six hours to tour Seattle between light rail depositing me at Westlake Station and meeting my niece and her three boys for pizza in Capital Hill. The next nine days would be family-focused in a small town an … Continue reading →

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Loving Bookish Seattle Even Before I Arrive

Posted on 02/04/2015 by paulefallon

People buy more books, per capita, in Seattle than anywhere in the United States – one and half times the national average. Although I cannot vouch that they actually read more (since they’re also busy spending more than twice the … Continue reading →

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Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1,2,3): Reminiscent of Another Iconic Drama

Posted on 02/02/2015 by paulefallon

As I took my seat after Intermission at ART’s production of Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1,2,3), I was struck that Suzan-Lori Parks’ historical drama is first cousin to another epic of another disenfranchised group in another era: … Continue reading →

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