You Don’t Have to be Einstein….

I was watching the TV the other night and happened upon a program about Einstein. I can’t say I understood all of the physics, but I did take away a few things.
The first is that he never doubted he was doing important work. Even when he was working as a patent office clerk, [...]

Yoga and more

I’ve just got word of my good friend Laura’s new site, and now I have website envy all over again.  Anyway, it’s a delicious site, one that explores the intersection of Yoga and Higher Education 
http://yogainhighereducation.blogspot.com/
And I can think of several people I know in Higher Education could could really use a little yoga…..
Blessings on [...]

Gloves, an Memoir

In our household some articles are common property, as I suspect is the case in many homes. Warm hats, scarves, gloves - all are there on a first-come first-grab basis, and no one seems to mind as long as one doesn’t look too ridiculous in the aftermath.
This was not the case when I was a [...]

Memoir

At times it seems almost anachronistic to be writing about memoir on a website.  After all, memoir is triggered by some very subtle cues - like seeing one’s father’s handwriting on an old letter, before he got too old to write clearly.  That’s something I’m never likely to get from an archived email.
Of course, there [...]

Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen

That was the start of a song in the 6os called, well, ‘Wonderful Copenhagen’ which was a big hit in England at the time.
Today, December 7th, is Pearl Harbor Day, and it’s also the start of the Copenhagen Summit Conference on Global Warming. The British press is making much of this event, and the same [...]