The mysteries of our daily experience
Sometimes we need to stop over thinking and tend to the ordinary and mundane.
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Offering small and large epiphanies
A new exhibition invites conversations about gender, work, and artistic agency.
From the bookshelf: July 2024
Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here’s my list from July 2024.
The crescendo moment in American history
Myth and history are both important in understanding our past actions and present choices as a nation.
History does not repeat, but it does instruct
We are no wiser than Europeans of the 20th century, yet we can learn from their experience.
Hubris, heartbreak, heroism
Erik Larson’s look at the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and Fort Sumter.
Looking away from a very old threat
Jamie Raskin’s searing memoir of enduring the pain of trauma to seek the truth.
From the bookshelf: June 2024
Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here’s my list from June 2024.
Truth can be elusive
I return to read the first in the Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series.
With fear for our democracy
The Supreme Court “has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever.”
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