Graceful Writing
In a lecture at Harvard University, 1993’s Nobel Prize in literature recipient Toni Morrison once explored the theme of good and evil in recent literature. Morrison narrated her interest in […]
Category Archives: On Anything and Everything
A Joke in Your Face
What are faces composed of? Skin and muscles? Sentiments? The long evolving cycle of events mirrored on our eyes and smile? I thought about these questions when Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s The […]
Grammy-worthy Hypocrisy
If you don’t do this already, it’s time to start exercising your critical faculties when engaging with media, or even just watching the Grammys. People say we should expect more […]
A Trumpian Europe
How to react to the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency? In many European countries, with satire and laughter. It started when a Dutch comedian prosed to amend Trump’s […]
Everything She Ever Did
There’s nothing more compelling than a true story. Last year I read The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, and watched the movie Unbroken, about prisoner of war […]
Christmas (and shopping) for others
December 26th, what is Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries is known affectionately in America as the “Day After Christmas,” as in “The Day After Christmas Sales.” It is, traditionally, a […]
Don’t Take Your Religion So Seriously!
A recent review of American Grace, a sociological study of religion in America, came to the conclusion that in an ethnically and ideologically diverse culture where religion is increasingly seen […]
