I just got back from my favorite night out of the year. The National Endowment for the Arts presents around a dozen master artists in the traditional and folk arts with $20,000 and the lifetime honor of being a National Heritage Fellow. People are nominated each year for avocations as diverse as Carolinian […]
Still no volunteers for Thursday Playlists. So: politics.
Do any of our five or so readers still think the U.S. should stay in Iraq longer than the few months it would take to effect an orderly withdrawal? Matt Yglesias offers the following:
I still hear it often said, including by liberal-minded people, that all serious experts agree […]
Cue Jim Carroll’s “People Who Died.”
It began on my way to the bus, with a phone call from my oldest, dearest friend, Meghan, who, through static interference and intermittent service, told me that our friend Q had died. For some reason I continually misunderstood her – I kept asking “who?” – for some […]
Today marks the end of two weeks without alcohol. Self-imposed and quite arbitrary. Glad I did it, glad it’s over.
Why did I do it? I’d been thinking about it for a while — wanted to feel healthier, look better, see how hard it would be to abstain. One week was too short a period, one […]
The past few months since I quit writing my blog, Is there no sin in it?, I’ve felt a little unmoored. I keep telling myself it’s a good thing, not blogging, not sharing every thought I have with a thousand strangers a day. I had started to feel like I couldn’t have an experience without […]