If you’ve ever belted out the lyrics to the Elton John song Rocket Man while driving down the highway, you have a man named Bernie Taupin to thank. Bernie was the longtime lyricist who wrote [...]

  This is an excerpt from my new book, Productivity Is For Robots . . . In the late sixties—before any of them ever had a hit movie—filmmakers Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, [...]

  This is a chapter from my book, Productivity Is For Robots . . . The author and journalist, Florence Williams is zig-zagging through a patch of prickly pear cacti toward the San Juan River. [...]

  This is a chapter from my upcoming book, Productivity Is For Robots. . . . Miles Davis was only 18 years old when he first sat in on trumpet with his bebop heroes, Charlie [...]

Since her death, the painter and revolutionary figure Frida Kahlo has become a symbol for struggle, art, and heartache. She was diagnosed with polio at the age of six and spent nine months in bed, [...]