A few years ago though, I had the semi-crushing revelation that it’s not that I don’t know much about cooking, it’s that I ...

Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. After watching a few of these other 1940 industrial-training films, I’m kind of ...

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The Blind Photographer is surprising and fascinating. These photos taken by visually impaired photographers, accompanied by a ...

Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. I am a walking, posture, and yoga teacher helping people overcome complex pain issues when ...

My first book, Out of Control, still in print from Amazon and available online in full text since 1995, was always imperfect in my eyes. I had wanted to fill it with illustrations. But it was so large ...

My young son, just learning to talk, would cry every morning to have us come in to get him out of his crib. I suggested that he didn’t need to cry or get upset to have us do that. The next morning we ...

The beehive beneath my office window quietly exhales legions of busybodies and then inhales them. On summer afternoons, when the sun seeps under the trees to backlight the hive, the approaching sunlit ...

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In a darkened Las Vegas conference room, a cheering audience waves cardboard wands in the air. Each wand is red on one side, green on the other. Far in back of the huge auditorium, a camera scans the ...

North to Paradise is Ousman Umar’s extraordinary account of his journey from a small Ghanaian village to Europe, a five-year odyssey he began as a thirteen-year-old boy. After a childhood spent ...