Toy Stories
What Toy Story, Pizza Planet, and a six-year-old taught me about how we learn to see beyond the highlights.
Collections
Stories are one way people preserve values, test ideas, and make sense of complexity. These essays explore what literature, history, folklore, and shared culture reveal about the human systems we inhabit.
The Quiet Machinery of Studio Ghibli
A reflection on operational texture, invisible labor, and the systems-level realism beneath Studio Ghibli’s worlds.
The Families Aboard the Enterprise
The Galaxy-class Enterprise was not merely a warship. It was a floating civilization built around the idea that ordinary life should continue even at the edge of the unknown.
So Say We All
Battlestar Galactica was never really about space warfare. It was about what happens when replacement disappears and civilization survives on maintenance, memory, and trust.
Samuel Clemens Keeps Appearing
A reflection on Disneyland riverboats, Sierra foothill towns, Star Trek, and the enduring influence of Mark Twain’s observational style.