A busy weekend, spending some time with new friends, and looking forward it’s another couple of months filled with teaching and lecturing. Still settling back into the groove of my life after what has felt like a vacation of sorts installing my show. I came back, as usual to a disordered house. Trying to set… Continue Reading
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Report from the hidey-hole
The blizzard has subsided. Our street has not yet been plowed, because it’s Brooklyn. So it’s quicker to trudge down the center of the street than to try to negotiate the sidewalks. At least the snow in the middle is somewhat packed down. Lehigh is struggling through drifts. I’ve been coaxing her into these orange… Continue Reading
I wear black on the outside, because that’s all I could find in my darkened closet…
Got home last night from day one of applicant interviews for the next academic year, ate the Pad Thai I had brought, placed my nearly dead cell phone on the charger, walked and fed Lehigh, turned on the TV stretched out on my bed when POP! out went the lights, in my apartment and few… Continue Reading
Back in Blech…
Don’t let the bad pun confuse you – I’m actually as happy as you see in the pic, having had a lovely weekend and now getting to enjoy a talented house guest. I’m about to wrap up some resposibilites and assume some new ones. I think that after this coming weekend the fall will settle… Continue Reading
I have six pens in my pocket…
Current Book: Richard Brookhiser – The Adamses, 1735 – 1918, America’s First Dynasty Again, a big gap in postings which means that I can’t recount all the important stuff. Or maybe only the important stuff. In any event, unless you’re a hard core fan of the minutia of my life, scroll down now! For the… Continue Reading
Felled by weather…
It’s chilly here now. Time to return to the rituals of temperature regulation in the shower: my landlord’s aged water heater and whimsical pipes mean that the water goes from tepid (25 seconds) to steam (1 minute, 16 seconds) to frigid (6 minutes). any attempts to even out the temp means dexterity like a safe… Continue Reading
Creeping Back…
If this activity is about anything, it’s about returning me to a life of reflection and integration. The past two years have been ones of upheaval. My life has been reshuffled, and It seems as though I’m still playing catch up. For the first time since high school I’m living in the same place as… Continue Reading