TKIN: Philosopher Encounters Modern Life

I'm at one of those points in the semester where I've been putting so many words together that the idea of putting more words...

I used to dance when I was young, and then I didn't dance for a long, long time, and then I started to want to dance again. So I started...

Lifesaver fountain by Niki de Saint Phalle in Duisburg, Germany. Photo by JuergeunG , reproduced here under Creative Commons License . ...

I love music. There are ways in which music is one of my favorite things, maybe my most favorite thing. And yet, at this point in my life, I...

A few weeks ago I was in the group exercise class BodyPump, and it was a "new release" -- which means new music, new choreograp...

One of my favorite places in the whole city of Toronto is this seemingly ordinary spot in the bottom floor of the Eaton Centre -- a place...

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Portrait of a Woman, via Wikimedia Commons There's a whole school of thought out there that says writing ...

I went to Helsinki last week, and on the taxi ride home from the airport, the driver said, "Oh, Finland! They have a lot of Buddhas the...

Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft, via Wikimedia Commons What if you were plucked up out of your life and sent to another planet where th...

This guest post is by my former co-blogger at Commonwealth and Commonwealth , Captain Colossal .  I have always wanted to be cool. I will...

Lucius Fox checks his screens Here is a true thing about me: put me in front of a TV set with a remote control, and I will flip channel...

One of the more annoying things an older generation can do to a younger generation is pretend that the hardships of the past were somehow ...

I've always had a complicated reader relationship with Haruki Murakami.  I mean, at the level of pages and characters I'm totall...

A Dandy , by Georges Jacques Gatine (1773-1831), a painting by Carle Vernet [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons . I was the kind of l...

Gaston Bussière (French, 1862-1929): “ Exotic Dancers ”, c. 1880; oil on canvas, 45” x 35”  This post has three main themes:  Writing is...

“What are the ten comics works you consider your favorites, the best, or the most significant?”     That was the question recently pose...