Covid 4.0

It’s the 3-year anniversary of the Covid pandemic, when the world shut down and everybody reevaluated their lives and how they lived them.  Now things are “mostly back to normal”, but not really.  Most of us have survived and we

Although we are 20+ years into the new century, which may seem late for bringing this up, my thoughts turned to the phenomenon of how much has changed since the much-dreaded Y2K Apocalypse which never happened.  Remember how the world

The other day I was reading about a piece of work being prepared by Gaetano Pesce, one of the greats of 20th Century Italian design, called “La Perdita della Manualita’” which translates to be “The Loss of Dexterity”. This piece

As we continue through the pandemic and economic meltdown of society and its norms this Labor Day 2020, it’s easy to give into despair and think that things have changed for the worse and will never recover. We are all

I rarely write blogs about my own specific map productions but I’m so excited about what I’ve been doing during this sheltering-at-home time that I’m making an exception. I took the opportunity to re-visit some older maps that I

As we all sit here sheltering-in-place during this hopefully-once-in-a-lifetime event, just sharing some thoughts on coping, mapping and the future. Forget thinking of the well-known beer or a large park in Queens, our idea of acknowledging what is going on

We all know how much men like maps. Statistically, way more than women, apparently. Have you thought about why that is? I believe it’s because, as a group, we are way more “lost” than the other gender.

As we approach the end of another year amid the tumult of trying to decide where everyone stands on the issue of climate change, I came across a completely illuminating article in The New Yorker about Rachel Carson (you know,

This past early August saw some of the seaweed-iest days we’ve ever seen along the Jersey Shore. It was literally enrobing all parts of us as we swam in the ocean. However, human creativity knows no bounds as