Blog Posts

  • Sorrow in the song for a three-dimensioned life

    This morning was a Friday morning, and on Fridays I try not to let the news depress me.  On the other hand, it’s been a bad week, news-wise, for some of my heart-held causes, and the front page of The Boston Globe tipped me over the edge at breakfast. Welcome to the library. Say goodbye…

  • Lullaby

    Lullaby By Meg Winikates, June 2, 2009 Cast your wish upon a sea star. Let the current carry your dreams. Rock in the waves of moonlight. Let your skin slip apart at the seams. Surf upon the stardust With the selkies all dancing beside, While the siren sings to her hairbrush, And the moon falls…

  • So you think you can think?

    As I was trolling through the wonderful world of ‘associated links’ and ‘other articles that might interest you,’ I came across a gem of a blog written by a fellow museum educator on the other side of the continent, and her defense of English majors. As an English major myself, I pounced on this particular…

  • A dark, cold day

    Now he is scattered among a hundred cities And wholly given over to unfamiliar affections. ~WH Auden, “In Memory of WB Yeats” The clicking on of my morning radio alarm rarely makes me all that happy–more rarely still does what I hear make me want to cry.  The world, the nation, and the state of…

  • The Trouble With Omnivores

    The Trouble with omnivores is they’re unthinkingly voracious– It’s a subject on which, I admit, I wax rather loquacious. I’m not advocating carnivoes like Tyrannosaur Ferocious, or pure herbivoric tendencies– to be too bovine is atrocious. But on behalf of picky eaters, I ask you to be cautious and be aware some recipes are less…