The Romans
One of my book groups recently read The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather. It was a bit of a slog getting...
Simon Says Postcards 9/18/2012
"Take your work seriously but not yourself." Dame Margot Fonteyn Jewish Museum Berlin More...
Camera Case Henge
CameraCaseHenge Photo courtesy of Gordon C This installation henge was a subset of sweaterhenge on August 26,...
To Be Young Again
Jim Stillman and Simon Burrow in Schenectady, NY circa 1966 "If you weren't liberal when you were young, you have...
September 13, 2012 Maxim
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." Herbert Hoover Hoover was President of the US...
Free Ice Cream
The Cow and the Ice Cream A story told by a 3rd grade teacher The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was...
Simon Says Postcards 9/11/2012
"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong." Sophocles Synagogues in Prague More...
The Harvest
All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields grow to...
A Short History of Medicine
"Doctor, I have an ear ache." 2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say...
September 6, 2012 Maxim
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. Germaine...
