Category: Personal
The Real Struggle
This makes sense to me: “The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.” ―Martin Buber…
Bright Phoebus RE-RELEASED
There is no album closer to my heart than Bright Phoebus credited to Mike and Lal Waterson, (it involves their sister, Norma). It’s finally been properly…
Josette Bushell-Mingo
One of the great joys of my early days in professional theatre was a Blade Runner-esque version of Of Mice and Men with an extraordinary…
Seven Aspects of Happiness
From my friend, Dmitry Zinoviev at Suffolk Univeristy, “Seven aspects of happiness.” Co-occurrences of subject tags in 1,350 academic articles about happiness, published since 1970 (tags…
One Must Imagine Sysiphus Happy
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods…
When You’re Smiling
There’s a lady walks out of the elevator that I can see from my desk and she always looks so sad. So I tried smiling…
Great News
I am very excited to tell everyone I know that for the next year I will be Visiting Scholar at Boston University in The Elie Wiesel…
Illuminated “J”
I was looking for interesting looking letters J to add to my e-mail signature and my resume and found these. I like them all. Share…
Writing and Living and All the Rest
I have always meant to keep this blog up to date, and have always failed, despite that, in the process of not keeping up to…
US Airways Thank Me for My Patience
Here is a link to a storify of some tweets I wrote while on hold with US Airways. After this, they won’t be much missed….
