Fruitful Detours
I was at the Art Institute of Chicago the other day, and they had a wonderful exhibition by an artist named Remedios Varo. I didn’t have a clue who she was. It turns out that she was a famous painter who was born in Spain, but due to war, she fled to France and then […]
Imagine waking up and thinking that what you are experiencing is just like yesterday. You could be in an infinite loop. What is an infinite loop, exactly? In computer programming, it is a set of instructions that cannot logically end. Take a look at the diagram below. If you start to follow the steps, you […]
I recently bought a new car. It is the same model as my old car, just newer and with less miles on it. I’m not sure why, but I’m having trouble getting used to it. I think I may have paid too much, but the other cars I looked at were even more expensive. Everything […]
The community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, just west of Selma, was once the cotton plantation owned by Joseph Gee. Most of the residents there after the Civil War were sharecroppers, eking out a living by producing cotton. In the 1930’s the price of cotton fell, and federal loans were used to farm the land. I […]