Curiosities and Fascinations
My Author Clock
Learning you can hold onto kelp to keep from drifting while you surf
Sound baths
Cosmetic acupuncture
The Pitt on HBO
Making custom stamps for my toddler on demand with a lino cutter
Reading: Hamnet, Chlorine, The Wedding People, Tender is the Flesh, Everything Here is Beautiful
Patti Smith’s Substack
Keeping a notebook of questions I have
Kayaking Elkhorn Slough
This heavy bag, in my garage
Rewatching Tarzan (and other Disneys) in my 30s (and crying)
Teaching my 2-year-old lines of Shakespeare
Using a date stamp on the first page of books I finish
Combination bookstore/wine bars
Listening to The Boys soundtrack
Keeping an entire journal inspired by Susan Sontag’s lists
Staring at all the sweet senior dogs who need homes
Slaying my Goodreads reading challenge (2025 Update: Replacing it with Storygraph)
Mango sticky rice
Collecting vintage copies of The Ring magazine
Austin Kleon's newsletter
Raspberry saltwater taffy from the boardwalk
Hiking Point Lobos
All guacamole, but especially this one
Checking the new Call Me Ishmael voicemails every Sunday
The List App (RIP)
Chip Kidd's TED Talk
The Americans on FX
Action Method notebooks by Behance
Everything the Melville House publishes
Adobe Capture
These Walt Whitman interpretations
A successful campaign to fund an at-sea performance of Moby Dick
The Knick on Cinemax
TED Radio Hour Podcast about creativity
FiftyThree's Paper app for iPhone
All the things Out of Print makes, but especially my Ender's Game shirt
California boxing gloves
The costumes in Ex Machina
The NYC store that's dedicated entirely to pencils
The NYC store that's dedicated entirely to Moleskine