Archive for the 'Literature and writing' Category

A Shakespearean speech for Obama’s silly season

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Jefferson’s library recreated: rare books offer a glimpse into a rarer mind

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Where are the snowmen of yesteryear?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Brattleboro, Vermont: where it can ALL happen!

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Ten poems to memorize in school

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Confessions of a semicolon lover

Monday, February 18th, 2008

A sonnet in praise of sonnets

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

The Blog of the Ancient Mariner

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Ah, those clever literary intellectuals!

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Street walker down memory lane

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Moving day: these I can unlearn to love

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Predicting the blog clog: Kundera saw it all

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Borges was right: the perils of Funes

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Memorial Day: mourning the war dead, honoring the war dead

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Twanging, from Homer to Cohen and back: music and poetry

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Understanding (and misunderstanding) Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Frost on poetry: “the happy discoverer of your ends”

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

‘Twas the Blogger’s Night Before Christmas

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Glad to have gone, glad to be back

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Fall ritual: closing the windows

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

The theme and variations vs. the symphony: on love

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Old singers never die, they just Sail to Byzantium

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Revolutionaries and regret: Eleni

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

On forgetting, unpersons, and doublethink: Milan Kundera and George Orwell

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

The sea of faith: the ebb and flow of religion

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

About Me

Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely leaving the fold and becoming that dread thing: a neocon. My friends and family don't want to hear about my inexplicable conversion, so I started this blog to tell the tale of my political change and provide a forum for others. I have a background as a therapist, and my politics make me a pariah in the profession, too. Little did I know that I moved in such politically homogeneous circles. Why the apple? See this.






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