My Own Thoughts

Review the survey of African art. Hwk: 1. Go to the Art Institute of Chicago and peruse their African collection. There are more than 400 pieces. You do not have to look at all of them. Find one that you think is interesting. Then find a modern corollary to the piece. Link to both the [...]

Doug McCune has mapped San Francisco’s crime and turned it into an elevation map. Very interesting. See all the pictures here, as he has arranged them by crime. Upon closer inspection the prostitution arrests are peaking on Shotwell St. at the intersections of 19th and 17th. I’m sure the number of colorful euphemisms you can [...]

Just in case I ever teach it. This syllabus has a list of resources. This syllabus is beautiful. (I need to work on that a bit more.)

Frowning Providence is a post on what it is like to not be able to participate in church because of financial issues. Even more than that it is about the inability of the church to accept a discussion of the reason they cannot participate. We don’t want to hear that you are doing badly, basically. [...]

Poetry, the First Milk has a mother who quoted poetry to her children all their lives. When at age 4 my daughter Anna became increasingly anxious at bedtime, I tried coaxing her to sleep with the most melodious poems I knew. “Come live with me and be my love,” I began as I sat on [...]

I am teaching a humanities class this year and next and this story caught my attention. How the Romans Made Pottery in Britain “What we’ve learned from the suite of replication events on campus is that the firing technologies evolved to fit the materials,” Chatfield said. The effort also helps trace the influence and intermingling [...]

I have a full-time job this year. I love my school, my department, and my students. The work is not egregious. The administration is supportive. I am incredibly blessed in what I am doing. However, as I prepared my request for classes for next semester, I realized that my teaching preferences will have to change. [...]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/020111_readers_snowstorm_photos/#/item-15472 The mail hasn’t been delivered in three weeks? What would you do if you were hoping to hear on a job?