That Pi Day a 2nd grader beat out 12th graders in the school-wide recitation contest and left the auditorium with a mouth full of pie. I’d known of the child–a whiz with numbers, his Lower School teachers said. We can’t get him into our class stories the other kids love. After Tim’s big upset win … More The Humanness of Whizardry
Maria Popova is a thought-hero of mine. She’s not an idol—rather, at my best thinking self I try to be her apprentice. No, we’ve never met. And yet, as is manifest in her writing on years of written correspondence between women who admire each other intimately, we can seem to ourselves to know a soul … More Maria Popova: A Dear Mentor I’ve Never Met
I moved this week and brought only two boxes of books with me! For a word-hoard-er, that‘s an accomplishment. Especially when around half the books were ones I really do reference and need with me as I study for my oral exams. The other box was almost exclusively volumes of English-language poetry, my native language … More Take me back to poet land: on Harryette Mullen’s “Fancy Cortex”
