Ed Brush wrote a recommendation for me to the Honors Program in Classics and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, and I was accepted. It was a perfect path into the academic world. We had small classes and ex
What added potency to the 'ethnographer's magic' (ibid.: 6) was his unique ability to mediate between the 'natives' and the reader to whom the book was consistently addressed – 'we Europeans'. Discussing Trobriand canoes, for instance, Malinowski wrote: We Europeans . . . accustomed ...
What I’m trying to say is that’s why I’m telling this story. When a dream like that slithers out of my unconscious and into the real world I get a bit jumpy. That’s how Karen was able to affect me so much in the dungeon. Oh wow, as soon as I wrote that I felt compelle...
“Well,maybe.” The Doctor clapped his hands and strode over to the console, flicking the first lever his fingers brushed against without even looking at it. “Right! Edinburgh. New Year’s Eve, 1999. Fireworks! Haggis! Aaaand…” He span on his heels, and the bottom of the kilt billo...
on the other hand, does not manifest itself in such spectacular fashion. Cold fury is focused, calculated, unspectacular; it takes it’s time, waiting for the optimum moment. Cold fury usually can’t be appeased, once unleashed. As I wrote some time ago, regarding theSan Francisco Committee...
I made a pitch about Byzantine history, the editors liked the pitch, and I wrote a draft. Two drafts later, even cutting the things they asked me to cut and changing the things they asked me to change, it became clear that what I was trying to say wasn’t working for the forum as...
we need to be prepared to do what has to be done to protect our fellow man. These thoughts were weighing heavily on me when I wrote the following piece in July of last year. To all my friends; ask yourself if you will be ready if today is the day you are called upon to be a ...
gardener guys out there. Not only is this a nice little stool that he can sit on to give his knees a break while tending to his crops, but it also comes with multiple pockets for stowing away his various gardening tools, making this a super thoughtful gift for the guy with a green ...
Though she threw Rhaenyra under the bus by obsessing over her sons' paternity, Alicent has found moments of reclamation where she can. Mashable's Belen Edwards wrote a whole piece about why Alicent's green dress in episode 5 is such an iconic power move. After Viserys' death, Alicent ...
Johnson was close with son Dwayne, who previously bought Rocky a house andpurchased him a car for Christmas in 2016. On Father's Day 2018, Dwayne wrote onFacebook, "Little boys by nature, look up to and idolize their old man. They want to be just like 'em, do whatever they do and...