The opportunity to reconnect with my fellow faculty members from the Manicur Symposium was wonderful! I can think of no crew that has been as singularly impactful in my experience as a facilitator and mentor.

We also laughed - A LOT. Something that cannot be underestimated is the value of a great laugh.

Free Press founder Bari Weiss: “We think that our audience is smart. They want to be treated like adults—and they want to hear the best version of different sides of an argument.”

Mookie has the flu, Dave Roberts and Justin Turner reunite, Shōta Imanaga is hilarious, and other notes in my daily dispatch from Tokyo:

I’m so sad that I didn’t get off the waitlist for Rick Steves’s book tour stop in Santa Cruz.

But I’m also so happy that there was a waitlist for this.

Renews my faith in humanity that we’ll stand in line to visit with an author who wrote a book called On the Hippie Trail. Good humans :)

Maybe you’ll have better luck than me!

Walked out of a bar in Paris and looked up to see the first signs of spring blossoms growing on the trees 🌸