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  • Happiness at Yale? by Leslie McGrath

    June 28, 2011

    Oh yes, yes my friends. There's happiness at Yale every summer — an entire course on happiness taught by Professor Lawrence Vogel, a professor of philosophy at Connecticut College. Larry's one of the best…

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  • Freud Quiz #28

    June 28, 2011

    y If you went “beyond the pleasure principle,” where would you be going, and with whom?(a) the Italian Renaissance with Vasari(b) the Spanish Inquisition with Loyola(c) the French Revolution with Saint-Just(d) the Trojan War…

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  • Sounds Like Lisbon – Sally Ashton

    June 24, 2011

    I wake up to the sound of clattering dishes coming through the open window of the room where I’m staying, the hostel’s kitchen crew getting ready for the morning rush of hungry travelers, some…

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  • words+breath=change – Lisa Vihos

    June 24, 2011

                             …the answer my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind. – B. Dylan   I don’t know about you, but I…

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  • Memory+Play=Poetry – Lisa Vihos

    June 23, 2011

    Today’s post is for my niece, Ella, who turned seven yesterday, and her mother and father who made her. All photos are courtesy of Stephan Mazurek. Dear Ella, You are a girl of immense…

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  • Mazel Tov Doug and Frank!

    June 22, 2011

    Married!  More pictures here.  NYT announcement here. ( Ed. note: Doug wrote to me about Stacie Turner's photographs:  "I like her subject line. In fact, the minister said something more thrilling even than that. "Let…

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