Sunny Side Up

My sister recently had the excellent idea of getting a Spirograph set for her her son's eighth birthday. This was more easily said than ...

A bunch of friends came over last night to help me celebrate my birthday with a dinner. Casting about for a menu I decided to try for a culi...

So, two orchestras in two days, both at Lincoln Center - the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, and the New York Phil under Ala...

A Snow Day meant no class meetings today. Instead, I puzzled out how to convey (that is, after first somehow understanding) the complicated ...

Snow Day

My friends who've been in New York the last month are weary of snow, but I'm delighted we're getting more of it. We had a dustin...

Like last year's, POTUS' SOTA - the President's State of the Union speech - cheered me more than I'd dared hope. He's st...

Both of my classes started today, bright and early: they're back-to-back 8-9:40 (Exploring Religious Ethics) and 10-11:40 (Aboriginal Au...

What better thing to do of a cold cold evening than bake bread?!

We're having quite a winter of it! Here's the scene Friday very early morning as the latest snowstorm tapered off. Not much of it ha...

Although I've been told that you could drive forty miles in any direction and still be in Houston, the area (Montrose I think is the nam...

Greetings from Houston! "Houston!?" you may well ask. It's not a city I know or have had any particular reason to visit. But a...

Met today with FM, an anthropologist of Aboriginal Australia. Since the acrylic painting movement in Aboriginal arts began among people he s...

Everyone hates "wintry mix" - a stew of freezing rain, snow and sleet. It certainly make for unpleasant walking - slush in all its...

I'm working on the syllabus for my new course, "Aboriginal Australia and the Idea of Religion," which I'll be teaching alo...

Seems like I haven't been away that long - the streets are full of Christmas trees! I thought at first that they had been buried in the ...

Back to Winter and man-made landscapes...

The weaving of the waves on Torrey Pines State Beach, as seen near end of day from Yucca Point, with Purcell's 13th Fantasia for Viols, ...

I'm heading back to snow and cold tomorrow, so it seemed a good idea to stock up on desert warmth at the San Diego Botanic Garden today.

Sigh. And another eighty people a day die of gunshot wounds.