Hard to believe it was twenty years ago.  I've heard a couple podcasts where people are talking about this, then they admit they were in kindergarten, or ten years old, when it happened.  That seems...

A bit more overcast where I am today, but happily only in outer, not inner, weather.  (Shoutout to Robert Frost, there.)  A pretty restful day, though I could have been more deliberate about it.

For...

We've had blazing heat for the past few weeks, followed by torrential rains, some of them the residue of Hurricane Ida; friends of ours to the South, esp in Louisiana, and to the North, esp in PA/NJ...

Well, the summer got away from me and I didn't keep up with this blog as much as I hoped.  Did you miss it?  I didn't think so.  But if you did, here are a few things I've been reading, that you might...

Today I've been thinking about ethical integrity in today's world.  In On War, Clausewitz said "In war everything is very simple; but the simplest things are very, very difficult."  Sometimes everyday...

Trying again to deliver the high-quality content you have all come to expect of me...

This is spot-on: what does reality have to do with our appetite for disaster movies?  After all it was the...

It's odd, I seem more committed to gathering the links and saving them on my computer than I am to sharing them with you.  By now I have quite a backlog.  What is up with that?  

Who knows. Anyway...

Cool links today.  People complain about the interwebs, and we should, we should, but there's a lot of smart people in the world, and they're writing interesting things, and there's always more to...

Just unleashing a bit more of the kraken here.

More information has emerged about the newspaper publisher who opposed Nikole Hannah-Jones.  This is a useful backgrounder for her decision to turn...

Nothing too exciting today--just some cool links: 

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review is a place where you can keep up with the latest scholarly work published in classics. Since they consider their...