Sunny Side Up

At a gathering in support of refugees and immigrants at Foley Square (I was part of a group of Episcopalians who gathered on short notice a...

First real meeting of my tiny comparative ethics class, focusing on Confucianism. I guess I could call it an Oxbridge-style tutorial: two s...

Reading about Confucius in these times is sobering. Not just about the alas universal experience of living under unjust rulers - what does ...

(I signed .) And this from the President of our University came today: The threat of Trumpism to our institutions and values is...

A Muslim American friend joined us for dinner tonight. I didn't know what I could say to her, as our government seems in the hands of c...

Happy Chinese New Year from New York!

Google kindly explained an unfamiliar term I've noticed popping up: "Gaslighting" is what people, usually powerful ones, d...

New Yorkers gather to show their support for their immigrant and Muslim fellow citizens, defying encroaching darkness with our light. No ha...

One of my Australian nephews asked if I'd heard that Donald Trump was banning sliced cheese, and if I knew why. I hadn't and didn...

"Not to scale: On sacred mountains" starts tomorrow! I've been dithering with the syllabus, especially once I decided that ...

What to get someone whose birthday comes right after the inauguration of that man? My partner figured it out: a new pressure cooker!

I was among the many who came for the Women's March in Manhattan today. There were so many of us, however, that my little knot of peop...

O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free. The land that’s m...

"You didn't ignore tomorrow!" said one of my colleagues. I guess not! The occasion was a forum for incoming transfer students...

My bedtime book these days is another "lessons of plants" book, great fun but entirely different from the last, the revelatory  B...

My course on sacred mountains follows on another Sacred Himalaya Initiative-linked course, taught last semester by an anthropologist from...

I've finished my syllabus for "Exploring Religious Ethics: Confucianism in Dialogue." I'm quite excited by the structur...

 (evidently from Janet Morley, All Desires Known , 3rd ed., 14)

Demonstration of comsogonic processes on the frozen surface of the Japanese Garden lake at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

By way of Nebraska, a secret Sicilian recipe for making canolli, alive and well in Brooklyn thanks to my friend M.