I have dreamt of soaring down miles-long descents between the sentinels of the Alps. I also realized that the window of opportunity to be able to climb to the tops of those descents was closing. This would be the summer.
On the heels of Artificial Intelligence-laden graduation speeches that audiences met with full-throated boos, this moment lends some financial gravitas to the emotional backlash against AI. In its purest version, the question is, “What should the future of work be?”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Assuming fifteen miles to Lowe’s in Torrington, five miles to Herrington’s in Lakeville, and three miles to Lindell’s in North Canaan, one step led to roughly 300 miles in Connecticut this summer.
My back step, specifically.
The grass that inexplicably sprouted from it, along with […]
Above: Peter and Tucker Shearer (left to right) in a rare stationary moment.
My first real attempt to jump my bike was in 1982. It was a Schwinn Stingray, metallic green with a banana seat, and the instant I pulled up on the cars, the front wheel detached from the frame. It was a disaster.
Fast forward […]
By Ian Strever & Daniel Moran
Daniel Moran is a student at Housatonic Valley Region High School who has been learning about drones and sharing his expertise with peers and adults throughout the Region 1 School District in Connecticut.
Imagine yourself standing among the most perfect 100-acre field of soybeans, planted autonomously by a GPS tractor, with […]
Because I am both the first-born son of a preacher and a writer, it was no surprise that I found myself afloat in a body-temperature pool of water on a Sunday morning in January when I might have been in church. That pool, about the size of Thoreau’s Walden Pond cabin, is nested beneath the […]
It’s eighteen degrees out at 9:12pm on December 23, and I’m at a trailhead, fumbling with the buttons of my headlamp. Ten minutes ago, I was in Falls Village, watching the Housatonic boy’s basketball home opener against Thomaston. We lost by fifteen.
We had a respectable first half, though, much like the Steelers did two nights […]
For me, it’s speed limits on desolate roads. For my daughter, it’s responding to text messages. For teenagers, it’s anything and everything.
“There’s something that everyone doesn’t comply with,” said Julie Browning, co-owner with husband Steve of No Comply Foods, as I interviewed her beneath a skateboard that constituted wall art in their decidedly non-compliant restaurant. […]
What, essentially, is intelligence? The longer we spend on this earth, the more nuanced our definitions become as they incorporate qualities such as intellect, emotion, and insightfulness, some of which can be cultivated while others seem innate, native. For as long as students have attended school, formal education has attempted to inculcate the markers of […]
Sometime around last Christmas, it became apparent that I would have a window of time this summer to dispense with as I saw fit. Things playing out as they usually do during the holidays, I began to plan for the best use of that time that I could imagine: a hermitage far from mankind […]