Sunny Side Up

My Wednedays are often a stretch - I teach one course in the morning ("After Religion") and another (the second meeting of "R...

Beautiful cover by Mark Ulriksen on the new issue of The New Yorker

Some fun weather today as temps dive again. That pink blur is snow!

Sharing Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants with yet another...

Spent part of this week unexpectedly in the sixteenth century.  Letting Mary-Jane Rubenstein's Pantheologies guide a course of reading ...

Three views of the same trees out my office window...  look closely and see black and red giving way to green!

These daffodils seem to be looking for Ukrainian blue

Rather a more pleasant drive home than our way over last week .

This is fascinating and disturbing: " Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority gr...

Cleveland is one of the great cultural centers of the United States - its orchestra has for a long time been known as the best in the countr...

A Cleveland oddity is the century-old "Cultural Gardens" celebrating ethnic communities ,which stretch along a road in a streambed...

Right about when we were passing these stones on the Ridges Trail in Cuyahoga Valley National Park my phone rang. It was my mother, in a mov...

Our Columbus-based friends continue to show us that the image of Ohio as flat and grey is wrong. Hocking Hills State Park begs to differ.

At Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbus, OH, sunflowers for Ukraine.

Spring break, did you say?

Spring Break is upon us! The red maples in the Lang courtyard are showing their color. When I return a week from Monday I expect to find yel...

Spinoza was a guest star in one of my classes today, the first time in decades. The long maligned and now endlessly celebrated Dutch Jewish ...

Accidents of scheduling took me to two exhibitions today which seek to challenge the ethos of exhibition. " What is the use of Buddhist...