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I feel like I was tricked into getting on Facebook, or maybe just pressured. One day I got an email that said a co-worker had signed up for Facebook and thought I’d be interested in it too. And I ignored it. Then about twenty more emails came in, all of them from people I work [...]
With Thanksgiving over, students now have only a few short weeks of classes left and final exams for the semester to look forward to. When I was in college one of the professors taught a course in existentialism. The final exam consisted of one word: Why? The only person in the class to get a [...]
I am neither an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
When I was younger I wore vests all the time. You could say I had a vested interest in them, but that’s the kind of pun that makes people laugh politely then stab you. What we in North America typically call a vest, though, is, in Britain, more commonly known as a waistcoat, even though [...]
Because public libraries cater to both adults and children they have to walk a fine line between access and censorship, purchasing certain materials that aren’t appropriate for all ages but also restricting access to them. And if there’s a question about whether something should be available to any patrons regardless of age or whether it [...]
Yesterday as I was about to cross the street a guy with a big cardboard box asked me, “Would you like a free book?” I hesitated because I wasn’t sure what it would be, then said, “Sure.” And he handed me a copy of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. I looked at it and [...]
It’s surprising that it’s taken Hollywood this long to adapt Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox into a movie, although Hollywood seems to have waited for Dahl’s death in 1990 to turn several of his books–Matilda, James And The Giant Peach, The Witches–into movies, and that’s not including the even more recent remake of Charlie And [...]
The thinness of what we call “civilization” is a recurring theme of Margaret Atwood’s work, and Wilderness Tips is a collection of short stories exploring this theme from several different perspectives. A woman mails her removed tumor to her ex-lover’s wife, going against what would be the civilized thing to do, while in another story [...]
Recently I was between two groups of co-workers who were discussing a major procedural shift. While no one in the department had the deciding vote (it had to go to people much higher up) there was a group of us who honestly felt both sides had good, reasonable positions. We thought that, whichever way [...]
One of the last items of Halloween candy to go (before you get to those horrible peanut-butter things in the orange and black wrappers) is the Tootsie Roll Pop. So I’m taking that as an excuse to share this old commercial for Tootsie Roll Pops which I’m sure brings back memories for many of us. [...] |
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