Look Again
Essays on the stories, ideas, and working lives that shape who we are, and who we might become next.
Scenescape Media
Two engineers, two operating systems. The difference between Kirk and Picard was never the engineer. It was the captain, and the culture the captain built. Which leaves a question the show never asks: what happens to the engineer who gives the honest estimate in Kirk's engine room?
We invite children to imagine a future, then ask young adults to choose an entire life. What if deciding what comes next is serious enough?
A crisis may force a new beginning, but starting over is not starting from zero. We carry experience, love, and hard-won wisdom into what comes next.
I first met Mrs. Pollifax as a child in a Reader’s Digest Condensed Book. I was far too young to identify with an older widow whose respectable suburban life had begun to feel unbearably empty. Yet I loved her immediately.