We get free tickets for a pet show at the local convention center. 'Lucy would like to see cats and dogs.' we think, and invite her to come along. There is a small ring where dogs

I turn 40 today. And I think I now understand why the average human lifespan used to be about 40. I'm tired. So so tired. Apr 13: I conceived a child today. I guess it doesn&

"Hi God," I say, "It's been a minute." God is old. Probably the oldest person I know, if you can even call Him a person, but He stays up on the recent lingo.

It's Sunday. I'm walking to the market with my family. As we are passing a church, the teams with their pamphlets and packets of wet tissues come issuing out of the doors. My policy

"Those are the slides of a homeless man!"

In the middle of Alan Frieze's talk, Mathias pulls out a gum and sticks it in his big mouth. Takuro Mochizuki, in his talk, refers to a result about flat bundles as 'deep'. I

I have lucked into a life hack that helps mitigate the absurd price of a cup of coffee in Korea. There is an instant coffee, called 'Kanu', in Korea. It is akin to the instant americano

I head up to Seoul for the ICM, the International Congress of Mathematics. I'm nervous. Both Lee Sang-june, and his life-long crush, Ben Green, will be there. Dr. Green is a plenary speaker, and Sang-june is