We have all seen the unfortunate person on street corner babbling incomprehensibly (to us) to some invisible imagined being. And we have all seen people praying before (and to) statues…
6.1.2015
The following is excerpted from a chapter on teaching in China in a book in progress by the author. I had been doing a lot of lecturing about planning…
An email comes in from a reader of these pages. It’s about Rochester, NY, a town we both grew up in. I’m always a little curious about Rochester, but I…
Recently I posted a piece about “beauty” and asked if my readers had some thoughts on the subject. I did receive a few in email and comments, but not a lot. I was…
A Lesson in Guilin I never taught English in China. In fact, other than a little shipboard course in travel writing I have never taught English anywhere. I doubt that…
[Continued from 94. 2] A multiple book review essay on: Iron and Silk (1987), Mark Salzman Twilight In the Forbidden City (Revised 4th Edition, 2009) Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston River…
There was a time when people went through life ever knowing what they looked like. Imagine that (well, you would have to, but probably couldn’t). That’s why Narcissus had to…
I don’t know whether I’m going to get death threats or a parade in my honor for taking up this subject. But it has been rattling around in my brain…
There has been, both regrettably and necessarily, much discussion about rape in America these days—about its occurrence on campuses and especially in frat houses, and in the houses of Congress…