We’re on Dan’s birthday trip; he wanted to see Italy and Greece (I guess some of that classical education penetrated the neurocranium) and so we’ve planned to divide the trip [...]
It’s been part of our family plan to take each child on a birthday trip somewhere out of the U.S. sometime during the year after the year they turn thirteen. It’s a rite of passage, [...]
Just returned DS19 to dorm with stern instructions to rest, eat 3x daily, drink liquids. Following own advice by having lunch on the Mall. # The reverse image of imagophobia is grammatolatry. # [...]
Last week I was reading an interview with Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love) and was struck by this line: And I have a small stone “Boundary God” statue from Sulawesi [...]
Staring down a week's worth of work… # Come on, work. Blink already. # DS19 has flu. His immune system fought off viruses in India, Egypt, Africa, China & Australia, but collapsed [...]
In the middle of preparing lectures and spelling out writing lessons and elucidating grammar lessons and working on the History of the Renaissance World…the rest of life revolves on. [...]
In preparation for those Vancouver lectures, I’ve been reading lots and lots of different takes on Marshall McLuhan’s aphorism, “The medium is the message.” (I think [...]
My head is full of fourteenth-century German kings and non-restrictive clauses and SAT prep classes and uncleaned stalls. # My head is full of papal monarchies and Augustinian dichotomies, [...]
This was a big week for life events: we delivered Christopher to his freshman year at college, and Ben turned seventeen. The college trip came first…after a last goodbye from the youngest. [...]
DS13, back in the house after gathering eggs: "A big snake was strangling one of the chickens. I whacked it with a shovel until it let go." # Embarking on the Fifth Crusade this [...]
Home at 3 AM. Tip for United: When reason next to "Delayed" on notice board is "Late aircraft," that doesn't really answer our questions. # I think late-night flying has [...]
Still immersed in piles of “social media will bring an end to civilization” books in preparation for those Vancouver lectures. Still unconvinced, although I’m accumulating a [...]
