Given today’s date, I feel that the burden of finding something interesting to say about love (a subject that’s been kind of explored) has fallen upon my feeble shoulders. What can one possibly say about this, the tiredest of all subjects: love hurts; love is blind; I love New York in June? You [...]
1. It should be remembered from the outset that Mitt Romney is running for president and stands some signficant chance of winning. Thus, he is a bastard. But how is this bastard different from all the other bastards?
2. In this season of non-standard presidential candidates, Romney’s Mormonism has drawn some comment. Damon Linker’s recent essay [...]
It’s habit-forming, that 200-degree radiant heat Russian room.
In the corner sits the furnace, an enormous stone room with a full-sized metal door. It looks positively medieval. Make your way up to the top of three tiers of benches that line the room and your nostrils will start to burn. Try to take in a full breath and [...]
I was struck by Bryan’s recent post on collective joy – with the observation that collective joy has been ignored and somewhat suppressed in Western culture. What has struck me, as an English immigrant to this country, is how much energy and enthusiasm y’all have for collective joy. It may not feel enough [...]
For BRJ
There have been a couple of great snowstorms in Omaha lately: not traffic-stopping, car-covering mountains of snow, but soft, six-to-twelve-inch blankets that require warm boots and lots of snow shoveling. “It’s my favorite day of the year,” I said to my husband a few weeks ago after waking up to a fresh snowfall.
“You mean [...]