Sunny Side Up

  Although we're quarantining we ventured out for a late afternoon walk. For the next months, starting with tomorrow's Daylight Savi...

I've been posting in the blog this week as if this were any week but of course it's anything but, something which has become clearer...

  Under the hood

Thinking about how to swing next semester's lecture course "After Religion" in ways which don't reinforce bad old ideas of...

Our choir is back! Well, virtually. Our director sent us a short piece and directions on how to record our bit so we can all be synched as ...

Rest assured, I voted for    約瑟夫 R. 拜登    and   卡瑪拉 D. 哈里斯 (Unexpected perk of absentee voting: you can take a pic of the ballot!)

Some of our neighbors, who have been keeping a Black Lives Matter vigil going every day for months at the corner of our complex, are in the ...

The New School finds itself a few painful steps into what may be a protracted journey through uncertainty - and not because we're specia...

Our journey is complete! It was only a fifth of the way across the US but it felt like more. The freedom of the open road! And of people liv...

Our week out of town was a great success. Not just the getting out of town, though that was a lot. And not just driving across foliage-drape...

Conducting my classes from our friends' place in Columbus, OH has been relatively without hitch - and the hitches brought lessons too! T...

Pope Francis has endorsed civil unions for gay people in the most wonderful way:   "They’re children of God and have a right to a famil...

City-slickers' delight: apple picking !

It was time for Durkheim in "Theorizing Religion" today, one of the thinkers I've been struggling to do justice to in past yea...

Behold Elijah Pierce's (1892-1984) representation of the expulsion from Eden, including scenes of what led up to it and some of what fol...

  Ever wondered where yukata and kimono patterns come from?

That Times article about The New School has generated a lof of comments, some predictable, many misinformed, and a few brilliant. My co-his...

Today, we savored a nearly forgotten pleasure - we went to an art museum! It was the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University. On...

We made it to Ohio - with a stopover in Pennsylvania midway! Of course the scenery wasn't green as on this Google Earth map, rather mo...

Inspired by our trip northward to the Adirondacks, we've embarked on a longer trip, this time to the west. Guess where we're headed...