These are in my opinion the best of the crop here at waynekspear.com
Good messes vs. bad messes. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear Photo courtesy of udge, on Flickr Messes can be figurative or literal. You’ll find them in your thoughts, your relationships, your habits, your closets. Messes can be emotional, psychological, physical,… Read More ›
When you die, the people who loved you unearth your significance. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear There we all stood, looking at the man’s tattoo. We knew what it was, but no one could think of the word caduceus. Everyone… Read More ›
It takes a village to rock. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear This is a story about Mick and Keith. Steve Jobs wasn’t interested in computer circuitry, and Steve Wozniak didn’t believe there was a market for the machines he was… Read More ›
Be open, bold, & generous. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear Imagine a company that sells sunshine. You can’t, because there is no plausible reason to buy it. If I have a pie, a certain number of people are going to… Read More ›
We need more simple people. ✎ By Wayne K. Spear The best ideas are simple, never simplistic. E=mc2 is simple. Einstein had other, earlier formulations, but none had the elegance of energy equals mass times the speed of light, squared…. Read More ›
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED, as I did recently, what determines the seemingly random pattern of tree branches? A case of “every which way,” it appears. One branch projects confidently toward the sky—another launches tentatively in one direction, suddenly adopting a… Read More ›
HE WAS, quite simply, one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever known.
I‘VE JUST FINISHED On Writing. It’s been years since I’ve read one of your books, and I enjoyed this one enough that I’ll be reading another soon. We have some things in common. Like you, I started a satirical magazine… Read More ›
IF YOU READ this little website of mine, you probably know I’m a fan of science and that I talk about sciency and logically things all the time. My partner Nicole follows IFLScience, where they have some science gift ideas… Read More ›
OKAY, first of all. So I joined the Twitter around February, nine months ago. That means I’ve been on it long enough to make a baby. Which I guess means that I have made a tweets baby, or maybe it’s… Read More ›
AN EDITOR ASKED ME not long ago if I might change the word “died” to “passed away” in something I’d written of a late and mutual friend. I respectfully said No, and here’s why.
WHEN I LOOK over my life, I see failures. You’ve heard the sayings: “success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” (Winston Churchill), “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” (Thomas… Read More ›
AT DINNER, my good friend Adrian M. Kelly (author of Down Sterling Road, which can he purchased here. Only one copy left!) observed that it’s difficult to make a living from serious writing.
I ASK MYSELF: if writing were an Olympic sport, who would be its 2014 gold medalist? Alas, we may never know. Of course, we are free to speculate, and that can be good fun. Would it be Mark Helprin? J.K…. Read More ›
I WAS ASKED the other day who I imagined my ideal reader to be. “Well,” I answered – “I hadn’t really thought about that.” Not exactly a stellar reply, I know. Of course I had a half-formed, all-wispy-like inkling of… Read More ›
