Thistlefoot/Beloved: or, living with generational trauma

Because I have lovely erudite people in my life, I found myself reading both Thistlefoot (for Book Club) and Beloved (for a work Juneteenth group) at the same time. Thistlefoot is about a house on chicken legs, transplanted from Russia/Ukraine to the US as an inheritance to the youngest descendants of Baba Yaga - who …

War Skeptic

This past week, we finally got around to watching "Don't Look Up," which everyone else saw two months ago. This is not a movie review, so I won't go into what I loved about it - but I do think that it's interesting to note the difference in reception between professional critics and the general …

Random thoughts of January

This January has been a month of change and coldness and sickness. I write these blog posts once a month (maybe more, who knows what the future brings?) because I want to keep up the practice of writing, and these posts give me the discipline of writing once a month. Because my other work-in-progress is …

Final Blog Post of 2021

I made a resolution this year to blog at least once a month: this is my final blog post of 2021, and with it I have managed to keep my resolution. Most of my blog posts have been full of doom and gloom: it's been a tough year. I think we had all hoped by …