I can't recall ever changing social plans in Berkeley because the weather ended up being too nice. Too bad, sure, albeit only very infrequently. But too nice? An excuse to procrastinate about working, maybe, but not a reason to cancel a visit to SFMOMA. Of course now that I'm back in the land of actual seasons, the weather is very influential, ( Read more... )

Just got this email from my dad, addressed to me and my brothers ( Read more... )

This is actually better in the translation into Old English done by Peter Glassgold for _Hwaet!_ some years ago-- in part because grass and yard are more clearly linked, and in part because the pronoun at the end is ambiguous in Old English--, but the original William Carlos Williams version has its charms too. I like to recite it when I'm ( Read more... )

I like that shabet is offering poems for National Poetry Month. I didn't even know it was national poetry month... but I guess between Chaucer and Eliot, it would pretty much have to be April, wouldn't it ( Read more... )

( a long entry, just short of 100 years in fact )

It's December 1st ( Read more... )

So I'm grading papers, looking at this Shakespeare sonnet that presents itself as a humble goodbye, and I'm wondering how much bite it ends up having ( Read more... )

A Jedi for those 8th innings and an Italian for their aftermath ( Read more... )

I give someone an idea not by saying what I'm thinking but by saying something quite different ( Read more... )

In the months following September 2001, I had the same nightmare over and over ( Read more... )