Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-26

In Athens; just spent the evening climbing around Mars Hill. # Just back from swimming in the Aegean. I could see my TOES on the bottom. Not like Virginia swimming, where all you can see is the [...]

Scenes from Greece

We arrived in Athens Monday afternoon, on the almost-final leg of our trip (we’re stopping overnight in Paris on the way back, mostly to break up the flight). I’ve never been to [...]

Scenes from Rome

Two days in Rome turned out to be just about right. Venice was right up Dan’s alley; it was fun and imaginative and filled with tiny crooked paths. Rome was huge and crowded and noisy and [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19

In Venice with dh and DS13. Spent night before last on a plane and last night on a train; Venice currently kind of fuzzy. # Could really get into this whole Italian "lunch + bottle of wine [...]

Scenes from Venice

We’re on Dan’s birthday trip; he wanted to see Italy and Greece (I guess some of that classical education penetrated the neurocranium) and so we’ve planned to divide the trip [...]

Dan’s birthday trip, Phase One

It’s been part of our family plan to take each child on a birthday trip somewhere out of the U.S. sometime during the year after the year they turn thirteen. It’s a rite of passage, [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-12

Just returned DS19 to dorm with stern instructions to rest, eat 3x daily, drink liquids. Following own advice by having lunch on the Mall. # The reverse image of imagophobia is grammatolatry. # [...]

The boundary stone

Last week I was reading an interview with Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love) and was struck by this line: And I have a small stone “Boundary God” statue from Sulawesi [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-05

Staring down a week's worth of work… # Come on, work. Blink already. # DS19 has flu. His immune system fought off viruses in India, Egypt, Africa, China & Australia, but collapsed [...]

When the book was the new technology

In preparation for those Vancouver lectures, I’ve been reading lots and lots of different takes on Marshall McLuhan’s aphorism, “The medium is the message.” (I think [...]