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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. # [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In the middle of preparing lectures and spelling out writing lessons and elucidating grammar lessons and working on the History of the Renaissance World…the rest of life revolves on. [...]
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 [...]