Category: OIAAT
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The Island We Keep Returning To
I’ve always had a soft spot for people who get stranded in inconvenient places. Not in real life, obviously. In real life I prefer water filtered, food refrigerated, and problems solvable with a phone call. I have, on at least one recent occasion, canceled a perfectly good flight because there was a faint and statistically…
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The Tree That Refused to Behave Like a Tree
There is a particular kind of tree that refuses to behave like a tree. I want to be clear about this, because I think we all carry around a fairly reasonable mental image of what a tree is supposed to do. It is supposed to have a trunk. It is supposed to go up. It…
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Fluency, Interrupted
In September 1991, at the Ryder Cup on Kiawah Island, Bernhard Langer stood over a putt he had made thousands of times before and could not trust himself to make now. It was the sort of distance that professional golfers do not ordinarily regard as a problem. They have made putts like this so often…
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The Line No One Drew
Have you ever noticed how ants move in a perfect line to a place no one told them about and back again, as if they had been given directions by someone extremely small and extremely bossy? It is usually midday when you notice them. The kind of heat that flattens everything except the things that…
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The Height of Belief
I have asked a few celebrities questions in my life, which is already more than I would have predicted for myself, and almost all of them have been answered with admirable patience. There was one exception. This was during the shooting of Guna. I was twelve, maybe thirteen, which is the age at which you…
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