I think the Academy Awards are great. Acting is great. The movies are great. Even movie popcorn is great. I love it all. Truly. My life is better because of…

First crocuses of the spring. Every year they emerge from the same spot on our front lawn. I adore these tiny purple flowers. They are lovely. but it's what they…

This is a parking sign in the lot behind TheaterWorks in Hartford, CT, where I performed my solo show this summer and last week in "Matt and Jeni Are Unprepared."…

Sometimes I encounter a person who claims Star Trek is better than Star Wars. While there are many, many ways to refute this utterly ridiculous claim, I like to point…

The more I work with people—students and adults—the more convinced I've become that confidence is the most important quality a person can possess. Confidence is often the difference between performing…

The Museum of Endangered Sounds is a website dedicated to preserving the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronic equipment. Dot matrix printers. Dial-up internet. The Windows…

I learned a new word this week thanks to one of my favorite newsletters, Numlock News: Backronym Definition: An acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out…

Just for the record: Climate change is accepted as a dangerous reality by all reasonable people. Democrats and Republicans alike. In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released…

An 18-year-old hacker from Oxford has been sentenced to indefinite confinement after a series of astounding cybercrimes. While on bail for hacking Nvidia and the phone company, the hacker’s laptop…

A student asked me, "Why would anyone start smoking? It just means you'll have fewer friends." It's a good point. Though smokers and nonsmokers don't always segregate themselves from one…