I missed the chance to commemorate the true birthday of this little blog, last Monday . but today, January 19, 2025, marks exactly 20 years...

since the eve of 2024 one month ago, it feels like so much has happened. some of it too fast, too soon, too painfully.  the grief of losing...

last summer I was quite enamored of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass . so much of it resonated with elements I hope are part o...

I think this is a small shrubby redbud tree. not sure though. it has a neighbor along our walking trail. the two trees are more like bushes,...

what and who do you find easy to listen to vs. difficult to listen to? I've had reason to ponder this lately, mainly with regard to dive...

an old facebook friend of mine, a few days ago, shared this Martin Luther King Jr. quote about the inability of violence to bring peace . ...

there's a scene in John Green's latest book, Turtles All The Way Down , where two teenagers sit next to an outdoor in-ground pool an...

I was just barely thinking about Jean ­Francois Lyotard, and then about Clay Shirky, and then about blogging, and when I opened up all my dr...

if all goes as it supposedly should, this will technically be my very last fall semester as a student. I am not sure how I feel about that y...

today I interrupt my rambly little list of loosely scheduled things-to-review to talk about a book I just finished yesterday. my advisor rec...

it seems so easy to be in a marvelously good mood when one is recovered from awful sickness. the work of spring semester is over. I have lit...

I came home from New Orleans to see that the walls of my apartment are no longer yellow, but blue. it's a grey-ish blue, I guess. a ligh...

I did mean to write yesterday, but the whole day rushed away around me and there was too much doing to leave time for writing. such is the g...

for the past fifteen Thursdays, I've been assigned to lead a one-hour conversation group for the Writing Lab . it's great fun. th...

before I left Kentucky, I visited a place called Bernheim forest. full name: Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest . it was a lovely and ...

traveling is a thing I very much love, and I've been pretty lucky to find a million excuses for indulging in it, so I am not surprised t...

last week I was losing sleep over a ridiculous little essay about Plato's take on Socrates' take on a mysterious woman named Diotima...

last week on a somewhat breezy Wednesday, I finished my class conferences, threw my notebooks and things in a bag, and walked across the str...