To be honest, I thought that I was going to delete this blog. There are articles that I have written and never posted, a backlog of to-dos that became to-avoids, and a neverending draw upon… Read More

Agatha Christie behind her desk with towers of her own books piled around her. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images 1.) Recognize that I need a zero distractions environ… Read More

Kate Orenstein - Echoing Green fellows participate in a Why Do You Do What You Do presentation at Duke University on July 24, 2008 (Source) Part of my ever expanding list of… Read More

Illustration by Lauren Campbell Other than periodically picking up a history book, or anything with which Sarah Vowell graces us, I don’t actively study American Histo… Read More

Antonin Scalia by David Levine for "Justice for Scalia" in The New York Review of Books I was going to write an entirely different post today—an exploration into a flu… Read More

You know you do. Image credit Honestly Yum HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! I know that this day is vastly unpopular with…well, everyone, but I have always been rather fo… Read More

I either need the magic gloves or the typewriter that grants a magic glove like aura. I have been struggling with a project that was initially intended for this blog that ha… Read More

I'm a newspaperman, darn it! His Girl Friday (1940) I love journalism. From the moment I watched His Girl Friday as a 10 year old, I wanted to be a newspaperman. T… Read More

Really, though. Fiona is my life goals. Just maybe a bit less murdery and sociopathic.  Happy New Year, and welcome to yet another iteration of the cultural dance we li… Read More

"The Feminist Photos" - Liora K. Photography **Disclaimer: I wrote this in 2014 and found it collecting virtual dust in my digital archives. However, this topic is stil… Read More

Forbidden Knowledge by Nazif Topçuoglu : A photograph relevant only in that it features lots of reading and that I love it. Recently, I have been bombarding the Inter… Read More

Libros - Daniela Alejandra         I am working on a project over the course of this year--the same project I embark upon at the advent of every yea… Read More