Suprise Me

Visit the brand new transfer station, spanking clean. Return home and excitedly relate the news. "You're raving about a dump?" Never mind. Read More

Most people associate the word “tutor” with someone hired to give individual remedial instruction in a course that one is having trouble with. However at Harvard, following the model of Oxford and Cambridge, students have tutorials in their field of concentration in their second, third, and fourth years. Sophomore tutorial is in a small group,… Read More

Oh, those candies with the toxic red dyes! Read More

When I think of photo booths, I think of freaking out in an MRI tube. Read More

My dad, with his finger forever off the pulse of the times. But the chaos of the late 1960s and early 1970s showed up in our food, even if most of the turmoil of the times failed to register in the southern Nevada desert we called home. Read More

Faith takes the form of Easter hats, nursing uniforms, Bach and carrot soup. Read More

Our grungy basement was perfect for free play, a thing all kids need. Read More

I’m writing to you from a time far beyond your own. Read More

Imagine being in that stadium with thousands of other university students and faculty, all roused up, politically aware, wanting a path forward.  The emotional energy was contagious and overwhelming.  Surely the concerns of so many people coming together could not be denied.  Read More

I hope I can order the salami early enough to avoid the cost of last minute delivery via cab from New York City. Read More