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Until I was in fifth or sixth grade I thought I knew all the colors of the rainbow. Then one day at school the teacher was bored and tired and decided to show us a film about colors, and for the first time I heard the mnemonic ROY G. BIV for remembering the colors of the rainbow. And again, [...]
Recently a co-worker came to me and said, “I have an odd proposition for you, and you’re welcome to turn it down, but…”
I used to procrastinate, but lately I’ve been putting it off. Reading the article How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci in the Chronicle Review got me thinking about procrastination actually being a good thing. Author W.A. Pannapacker* says, “[P]rocrastination reveals the things at which we are most gifted — the things we truly want [...]
Recently blogger Baino, in a post titled simply Library, admitted that the closest she’s come to a library in the last decade is “either watching ghostbuster’s on DVD or walking past it on my way to lunch each Friday!” Since I work in a library it was a little disheartening to know that someone so [...]
It seems strange that there’s never been a stage adaptation, that I know of, of the epic of Gilgamesh. I’ve written about Gilgamesh before and included a list of all the versions I knew of as well as various cultural references. The real Gilgamesh was a Sumerian, and the Sumerians began the legends which were [...]
The current state of the economy has a lot of people talking about the Great Depression (not that there was anything great about it, apparently), which reminded me of the word hobo. It’s a strange word that, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, first appeared in print in 1889, originating somewhere in the American West. [...]
Even though movies are the bailiwick of The Movie Maven (and she does a fine job with them, too—please check out her site) and Just Write is supposed to be about books and writing, sometimes exceptions have to be made. This is especially true when I’ve been waiting almost five years for a film to [...]
When I first saw Bertel Thorvaldsen’s statue Ganymede And The Eagle, it reminded me that, even though I’ve heard the story of Ganymede referred to repeatedly throughout the years, even though I think about it every time I see the planet Jupiter in the night sky or look at it through a telescope and see [...]
While Richard Wright is most famous for the bitter, disturbing novel Native Son, as well as his autobiographical work Black Boy, his novel The Outsider gives an idea of how Wright’s views of the world were evolving, especially after he moved to Paris and began to study existentialism. In many ways The Outsider reads like an [...]
I take requests. When someone asked for my comments on the word gorge, I was struck by what an amazing word it is. My first thought was of the geographical feature which the Oxford English Dictionary describes as “A narrow opening between hills; a ravine with rocky walls”. I thought of it mainly because of [...] |
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