Archive - Cento

Like a lunch portion of turducken

Or a contemporary Thornton Wilder play

Jun 30 •

If you forgot you read a book, is it still part of you?

I reread some books from my childhood.

Jun 23 •

Slow thinking in a fast world

(Also low-key Vegas travel trips.)

Jun 16 •

How reality TV illustrates emotional roles

I've been a casual watcher of reality TV for many years.

Jun 9 •

What Vegas teaches us about relationship systems

I've been chilling at Fontainebleau.

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Writing about the self, Nate Bargatze, and translation

I've come to understand myself as a translator between worlds.

May 26 •

Quitting writing, writing communities, and cultural narratives about emotion

I’m writing a manuscript of poems about Las Vegas

May 19 •

Fostering emergence, naming the grief, and navigating the liminal zones

The hd expo at Mandalay Bay, Jackie and Shadow and the eaglets, and imagining yourself at age 80

May 12 •

Built for complexity, grief, and rigor. Carrying paradoxes that most people instinctively split apart.

And what Deloitte misses in its 2025 report on higher education

May 5 •

April 2025

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