Olé! (You need to watch the clip to get it.)

I just watched this very interesting clip on creativity by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the runaway bestseller Eat, Pray, Love on TED.com through a link from Amanda Soule’s web site, SouleMama.  In it, she suggests that perhaps people aren’t creative geniuses themselves, but that they have creative genius(es) inside of them.  Thought I would share… [...]

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Humanities in the twenty-first century

I don’t think I am alone in the fact that there are moments where I wonder whether it is all worth it. By “it” I mean the daily sacrifices (personal, financial, etc.) required on this road to a Ph.D. in the humanities–something that doesn’t necessarily offer a great ROI, at least by societal standards.
My [...]

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Food: A good day for soup!

We here in the Northeast are now in the midst of a deep freeze, which makes today a perfect day for some soup that is hot, hearty, and delicious!  
Potato Leek Soup fits the bill.  Add some French bread, a small green salad, and you have a simple meal that even little ones seem to [...]

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Wednesday: Annotated Biblio-blography

Four-year-old wonders ‘Who’s Tots and why is he getting all these toys?”
Jen’s four-year-old is quoted (anonymously, whew) on the front page of the Metrowest Daily News this week as he weighs in on this year’s Toys for Tots campaign. Finn’s preschool ran a collection for toys and as the article observes: “The school’s drive also [...]

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Happy Birthday, Milton!

Today marks (what would be) the 400th birthday of John Milton.  Would you believe that I braved the arctic temperatures to attend an outdoor reading of “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” this morning at dawn over at Harvard?  In all, there were about 30 people in attendance, and we each read a stanza of [...]

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Food: Lemon Ginger Chicken with Tomato Feta salad

Yesterday I defrosted some chicken but didn’t have any plans for what I was actually going to make for dinner.  I quickly flipped through The New Basics Cookbook (Rosso and Lukins) and found a great recipe: Lemon Ginger Chicken! I decided to pair it with plain converted white rice and a Tomato Feta Salad (a [...]

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Just because

 

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Culture Watch: Stephen Greenblatt at MIT 10/14/08

Every so often, I have one of those moments when I am struck by the “coolness factor” of our line of work. Because it is pretty cool that a large lecture hall could be filled between 5-7 pm on a Tuesday night in the middle of October to hear a Renaissance literary critic talk about [...]

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Community: Reports from the Pastoral Ideal

One of the things I love about the Boston area is how quickly you can move from urban city to honest-to-goodness New England countryside. This is very different than the D.C. area where I grew up, where, not only is the city itself much bigger (and parts of it, downright inescapable), but if you manage [...]

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