Shawn came by the store yesterday and we sat on the wooden deck and talked about big ideas. He's planning a mind-bogglingly ambitious series of novels, but he doesn't want to start writing them until after he's done at St. John's (he starts in the fall). We talked about Rimbaud, and my huge outsized fear of my own complacency with dangerous ( Read more... )

I was reading this open letter that the director of Not Back To School Camp wrote regarding this thing called the "Power Shuffle," and her decision to discontinue it as an official camp tradition. A lot of people were upset about the decision, given that this exercise was really meaningful for a lot of us. It basically involved standing in a big ( Read more... )