Being A Nerd Really Pays Off Sometimes.

You Live Overseas, You See These Exotic Places And You Want To Know About Them. But, Weirdly, It Also Made Me Homesick For All These Very Prosaic Places In America.

If Youre A Vegan Who Ran A Marathon & Got Your Dogs From A Shelter, How Do You Decide Which Thing To Wedge Into The Conversation First?

There Must Be Something Innate About Maps, About This One Specific Way Of Picturing Our World And Our Relation To It, That Charms Us, Calls To Us, Won’t Let Us Look Anywhere Else In The Room If There’s A Map On The Wall.

I Would Stare At Maps Of Delaware For Hours.

Eratosthenes, The Mapmaker Who Was The First Man To Accurately Measure The Size Of The Earth, Was A Librarian.