Listen to A Sensual Exploration of Chocolate I am not a religious man. My temples are not made of stone, and my prayers are not spoken in archaic tongues. But I do have rituals. I do believe in communion. I believe in the sacred act of unwrapping a piece of good, dark chocolate. It begins with a sound. The crinkle...

Listen to A Sensual Exploration of Chocolate I am not a religious man. My temples are not made of stone, and my prayers are not spoken in archaic tongues. But I do have rituals. I do believe in communion. I believe in the sacred act of unwrapping a piece of good, dark chocolate. It begins with a sound. The crinkle...

We live in a world that worships the sleek and the weightless. Laptops get thinner, phones lose their heft, and everything is made of some space-age polymer that feels like a hollow lie in your hand. We’ve been convinced that substance is a flaw. I am here to lodge a formal protest. I am here to sing the praises of...

Listen to An Ode to the Perfectly Weighted Object. We live in a world that worships the sleek and the weightless. Laptops get thinner, phones lose their heft, and everything is made of some space-age polymer that feels like a hollow lie in your hand. We’ve been convinced that substance is a flaw. I am here to lodge...

Listen to the 'Accessibility' Link is a Lie It should be noted that I utterly loathe corporations. It's important, though, to keep in mind when reading, that a corporation looks and acts very differently than a small business trying to do the right thing. In the corporate world, there's a special kind of lie. It's...

It should be noted that I utterly loathe corporations. It's important, though, to keep in mind when reading, that a corporation looks and acts very differently than a small business trying to do the right thing. In the corporate world, there's a special kind of lie. It's not a loud, brazen falsehood; it's a quiet,...

Ever since younghood, we are taught that sound is intangible. It is a disturbance in the air, a vibration of molecules, a wave that travels from a source to our ears and is then processed by the brain. We are taught that it is massless, ethereal, a ghost in the machine of the physical world. This is a lie, without...

Listen to The Weight of A Voice Ever since younghood, we are taught that sound is intangible. It is a disturbance in the air, a vibration of molecules, a wave that travels from a source to our ears and is then processed by the brain. We are taught that it is massless, ethereal, a ghost in the machine of the physical...

I hope to give this letter to a special man, one day. I love you more than I love my books. Your cover is the one thing I look forward to each day. Your leather binding captivates my eye. Your words always keep me turning the pages, wanting more. I love the plot points you reveal to me when we are communicating. I...

Listen to On Hearing in Color As a sighted reader, or a temporarily sighted reader, I can probably guess you have a different relationship to color than I do. Because you're a sighted person, you're told that color is a property of light. It is a wavelength, a frequency, a photon striking a cone in the retina. It is...

Listen to On Hearing in Color As a sighted reader, or a temporarily sighted reader, I can probably guess you have a different relationship to color than I do. Because you're a sighted person, you're told that color is a property of light. It is a wavelength, a frequency, a photon striking a cone in the retina. It is...

This is an excerpt from Pass the Salt I can't stop gaping at my sent messages. The number without a reply seems to grow every day. I look back at some of the older messages, wondering when I made that first introduction. I spot some messages dating back a few weeks ago, and still more a few months ago. I look at my...