After finishing the monumental work of The Path Between The Seas: The Creation Of The Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough, I went for something a little lighter: Plato And A Platypus Walk Into A Bar… Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes.  It was exactly what I needed. Honestly, I couldn’t even tell you about all the...Read More

Native Detroiter and star of Comedy Central’s Key & Peele Show, Keegan-Michael Key has been back in Detroit a lot lately.  First to help open Jack White’s new shop in downtown Detroit and again as star of a benefit show at the DIA to help raise money for the Detroit Creativity Project, a project to...Read More

David McCullough’s exhaustively researched tome, The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, is on par with all of his great works.  McCullough is best known for in-depth research of singular events, including The Great Bridge; 1776; Truman, The Jonestown Flood; and others.  McCullough writes with great insight, humor, and elegance...Read More

As weathermen in Detroit predicted our largest snowfall of the season, they reverted to their tried and true strategy.  They had reporters standing over bridges monitoring traffic on expressways, they had viewers tweeting in how much snow had fallen in their particular city, they had “breaking news alert” flashes telling us how much snow was...Read More

Creativity:  Nobody knows where it comes from, but everybody wants it.  Most people can’t define it, but they know it when they see it.  It’s a misunderstood topic, but many of us spend countless hours trying to become more creative. In his groundbreaking work, Creativity:  Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi...Read More