Sunny Side Up

Just an AI update. Claude Sonnet 5 - the free version! - is unnerving. This was an idle query of mine about the work of a late-19th century ...

This hasn't happened to me before - a flight cancelled, two days before scheduled departure!  No reason was given, but it might be an ab...

Ruben Ray Martinez , another victim of our inhuman regime, in a photo by Harmon Li which reminds us of how many lives are shattered by every...

Went to my first event as the new Faculty Advisor for Sophomore and Transfer Students, where I received this, New School's newest merch....

  As I add more flesh to the bones of my "religion of trees" book I'm refining my voice. The book isn't and doesn't as...

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When it isn't one thing, it's another. Today it was both and then some. Real-feel temperatures in New York neared 100˚ (it felt the ...

              I've been spending some more time with Skywoman. Robin Wall Kimmerer's exquisite telling of the story in  Braiding Swe...

Visited the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers today - our first time. It's full of delightful discoveries , like Wade & Croome's 1...

I've been back at school three times this week, for air conditioning and quiet as I wrestle with my squirrely "religion of trees...

A travesty, a waste and a shame. Now that we've made it past the prez's people's pathetic pass at honoring the nation's birt...

Another charmed stay in the Adirondacks, this one a little different.  We've avoided the summer season in the past. But someone cancele...

Late afternoon in Pigeon Lake Wilderness, returning from Queer Lake.

The bicen-quinquagenary is coming, and I find I'm not as anxious about it any more. The regime's efforts are falling epically flat ...

Adirondack apparition

It's not just in the US that the humanities and liberal arts are under threat! In China 12,000 degree programs have been shuttered in t...