Sunny Side Up

 On the Del Mar beach, some brownish foam... until you look closer.   Beautiful? Um, yes.

At semester's end, what have I learned? People always say you learn as much from teaching as your students do, but in a seminar setting...

Even with a cellphone camera panorama... wow.

El Niño-inspired surf has scoured the Del Mar beach of more sand than usual. In one place, just below the Power Station, it left a layer of...

Hey, what fun - there's free wifi onboard! And so although the Flight Map is down, I can follow our progress through the website  Fli...

Winter break travel's first leg (actually from JFK)! On to Shanghai Jan 3.

Thanks to the Los Angeles Times , whose caption reads:

So Final Syntheses have come and gone. It's always a moving experience, even when you take into account the pretty-much obligatory ...

A text I'm considering for next semester's course on Job and the arts is Hanoch Levin's Sorrows of Job (1981). Even in transla...

Today saw the penultimate sessions of my classes, with discussion of "non-exclusive identity," white supremacy and the once and ...

The world , said a visiting preacher in church this morning at the end of her sermon, is too dangerous for anything but truth, and too big ...

The tree has gone up outside the Washington Square Arch. But in this unseasonably warm year, where it still feels like Fall, this tree-with...

I lost a favorite scarf tonight - grey and purple herringbone, perfect with my red-lined charcoal peacoat - but I find I don't mind. ...

No, and yes. (From December 7, p69; December 14, p65)

In the Guardian stunning aerial photographs by Daniel Beltrá of Greenland's glaciers in crisis. Unspeakable beauty, and calamity. ...

Quite an artistic day we had in Philadelphia, starting with one of the city's famous murals (actually one of a pair, the other, in sim...

In parts of Prospect Park Autumn still reigns!

Wondrous light show along the Schuylkill River walk in Philadelphia.

My Chinese friend is heading back to Shanghai next week, so we went on a final trip out of town - to hang out with a friend in West Phi...