Reflections of childhood imagining and how too often our society fails to foster it.
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Childhood Imagination: Encourage It or Lose It
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Children, Huckleberry Finn, Imagination, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain Comments closed
Antigone Taught Mandela Leadership
While in prison, Mandela performed the role of Creon in Antigone. The experience may have helped train him for leadership years later.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Antigone, Apartheid, Edith Hall, leadership, Nelson Mandela, Sophocles, South Africa Comments closed
The Joys of Reading Fanny Burney
In which I share my first-time reading experience of Fanny Burney’s Cecilia, which I couldn’t bear to put down.
O’Connor Illustrates White Identity Formation
In the short story “Artificial Nigger,” O’Connor shows how racism is inculcated in a child. Toni Morrison’s sees the story as paradigmatic.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Artificial Nigger, Flannery O'Connor, racism, Toni Morrison, white identity Comments closed
She My Lodestar While I Go and Come
Four poems for Mother’s Day.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged “Ave Maria", “Rock Me to Sleep", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Carl Sandburg, Christine Rossetti, Eavan Boland, Elizavbeth Akers Allen, home, In Memoriam Comments closed
At 75, She Accessed Her Inner Amazon
Entering her mid-seventies, my wife imagines herself as an Amazon warrior girding herself with velcro greaves and cuirasses.
It Was the Worst of Times: Gilded Age Redux
As the U.S. engineers a second Gilded Age and Trump fantasizes about ballrooms and monuments, it’s time to revisit Tale of Two Cities.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Charles Dickens, Donald Trump, Gilded Age, Tale of Two Cities, wealth inequality Comments closed
Hope in Blooming Lilacs (Whitman)
For all the damage Trump & Co. are doing, Whitman, writing after the death of Lincoln, reminds us of American resilience.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged “When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom’d", Abraham Lincoln, cycle of life, Rebecca Solnit, Walt Whitman Comments closed