Being a work-in-progress in the post-college world
Hello, newly minted college graduate. How are you liking real life? Scary, right? Especially for a young adult. Gone are the days when a parent could make a decision for [...]
Book review: “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” By Isabel Wilkerson
The North wasn’t the Promised Land. Or was it? The North didn’t have Jim Crow laws written into the books to keep African-Americans down. But it did have James Crow, [...]
Book review: “Revolt in 2100” by Robert Heinlein
Initially, I wondered if, in 1953, Robert Heinlein had had the still-very-new state of Israel in mind when he published “Revolt in 2100,” a collection of two short stories and [...]
Book review: “The Bear” by William Faulkner
"The Bear," which was included in William Faulkner's collection of seven fiction pieces in "Go Down, Moses" in 1942, has been called a short story. It's also been labeled a [...]
Book review: “Lives of Rembrandt: Sandrart, Baldinucci and Houbraken,” introduced by Charles Ford
Rembrandt had been dead for half a century when Arnold Houbraken wrote in one of the earliest biographies of the painter: And as to his female nudes, the noblest subject [...]
Book review: “The Long Earth” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Near the end of “The Long Earth,” after a long quest, the three central characters come face to face with an entity that one describes as “a destroyer of worlds. [...]
Book review: “Inherent Vice” by Thomas Pynchon
In 2009, Thomas Pynchon published a (for him) short 369-page mystery novel “Inherent Vice” about a hippie private investigator trying to puzzle out a host of intricate and seemingly inter-related [...]
AUSL Master’s Degree graduation valedictory by Sarah Catherine Shiel Reardon on June 9, 2012
Good morning residents, colleagues, family, and friends! Michael Whitmore said the three Rs of a successful urban teacher are resiliency, responsiveness, and reflectiveness. Residents, now that we have completed our [...]
Psalm
The Lord croons melodious tunes. Praise God. The Lord whistles cool breezes. Praise God. The Lord laughs deep from the belly. Praise God. The Lord knows humor as a faithful [...]
Book review: “The Menace from Earth” by Robert A. Heinlein
Success, in the form of “Stranger in a Strange Land” (1961), went to Robert A. Heinlein’s head. He discovered a callow audience enthralled with his pop psychology and jejune philosophical [...]