Originally posted by neo_prodigy at Spirit Day
 
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Just got back from seeing Bottle Shock in New Haven.

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At about this time last year, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as it eventually came to be titled, was being filmed in the city where I work and where I went to graduate school. Filming took place in the city streets and also within the university campus. I could look down from my office window on the nineteenth floor onto the ( Read more... )

My younger son, E., turned three yesterday. For the past three years, his impish smile has lit up my life. The feel of him running into my arms, often pajama-clad, as I walk into the front door at the end of the day is what keeps me going. For all the effort, time and expense put toward therapy and treatment of his older brother's condition, and ( Read more... )

Text, audio and video of Jo Rowling's commencement address, extolling the benefits of failure and the power of imagination, available here"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better ( Read more... )

I apologize for all the navel examination of late, but I was moved by the baccalaureate address at my alma mater this year, given by the by the College's newly-minted first female president ( Read more... )

So I'm going to make up for my long absence from LJ with this Long and Rambling Post, in which I attempt to work through some Issues ( Read more... )

This post is especially for adaveen, to whom it's been owed forever, and for deeindiana, who held my hand (online if not in RL!) during my solo trip to London last March. Smooches, ladies ( Read more... )

NOTE: If you have no interest in The Police or Sting or *gasp* don't know who they are, just skip this post ( Read more... )