I'm back in the Chi, classes are underway. This fall's load looks to be a little lighter than the past few years, since I'm teac...

Ah, the socialism continues: late Friday, conveniently after the US stock markets had officially closed and two days after the Dow Jones Ind...

And now, finally, I'm back to my previously scheduled program, many stones, three surgeries, two stents, and a month and a half later, j...

It has been a while, a long while, since my last post, three weeks in fact, and unfortunately though I would like to say I'm better, it...

I've been away from here for nearly a week, but this time I have an excuse: kidney stones. Once again I'm weathering a bout of them,...

One of Olafur Eliasson's waterfalls, from the R train (?) on the Brooklyn Bridge A street painter, near City Hall Park The Fountain Pen ...

It's been a long while, more than a week, since I last posted (I've added my unfinished post from yesterday). It's not for want ...

Passing Strange unfortunately is closing on July 20, 2008, so if you can, catch it! Spike Lee is going to film it on Saturday , so it ough...

(click on the document to see a high-resolution version) So what can you do? You can visit this site, Blue America PAC vs. Retroactive Immun...

Working backwards through the weeks, I meant to finish an earlier stub about going to see the extraordinary Broadway musical play Passing St...

So few posts, I know...but perhaps by mid-July or later I'll be back at least half-speed. These days it's all I can do to hammer out...

It's been a while, I know. I've been recuperating, writing, reading, wending my way to the library, wrangling with grant applicatio...

The weather has been so lovely since I've been home that I must thank the gods. Just before the end of the school, when it was still coo...