Creating Interest

Hello darkness, my old friend.... That's the first line of Paul Simon's I remember, from The Sound of Silence . Even then, when I wa...

A year or so after leaving Santa Fe, a place of unique beauty and a certain theatrical self-consciousness, I picked up a liking for Latin Am...

I’ve been working with a group that I refer to as “The Think Tank.” They are smart, smart people who work in the museum field and serve fro...

Lola the Poodle went to Melanie's beauty parlor yesterday. When she's due for a bath and haircut, she begins to act like a tramp. Af...

Yesterday I wrote about Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman. It's such a wonderful combination of deep thinking and great narrative sty...

I've recently finished a superbly-written book about personal identity by Saidiya Hartman. The book is Lose Your Mother (A journey along...