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Mindscale: December 2009
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Weighing the possibilities in the arts, humanities, and education. Sunday, December 27, 2009. If you want to know a whole lot about any number of countries, check out James Michener’s oeuvre. Chances are, he wrote about it. The Michener book that’s been keeping me up nights is Caravan. Nobody will ever accuse James Michener of intricate plots, psychodrama, or brevity (my soul mate! In addition to Caravan, I’ve read Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii. Thursday, December 17, 2009. A Christmas sugar plum.
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Mindscale: Columbia University College Tour
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Weighing the possibilities in the arts, humanities, and education. Thursday, March 4, 2010. Columbia University College Tour. The Nikipedia is only sophomore-level, but given how LATE we are on just about everything, it seems reasonable to check things out when we’re in an appropriate city. Thus, trip to New York = visit to Columbia. Why were we interested? Okay, I feel a digression coming on. In the few schools we’ve so far toured (Oberlin, Peabody, Northwestern and Univ. of Chicago. Mostly what I was i...
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Mindscale: Cookbooks for when you’re broke
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Weighing the possibilities in the arts, humanities, and education. Thursday, March 11, 2010. Cookbooks for when you’re broke. Which is nearly always for us, mostly due to the amount I spend on food and books! February’s “cookbook of the month” experiment turned out to be two: Ann Rogers’ The New Cookbook for Poor Poets (and others). And Mary Ostyn’s. Family Feasts for $75 a Week. Whenever I open Poor Poet’s cookbook, I feel 40 years younger. I bought this book as a teenager when I first ran awa...I remem...
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Mindscale: November 2009
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Weighing the possibilities in the arts, humanities, and education. Tuesday, November 24, 2009. It’s a living. Well, duh, it requires CREATIVITY. Just like dating. It’s unlikely that anyone is ever going to arrive on a white horse. And if they do, it’s because you already have the door open and are looking out for the whinnying. Two good books about making a living in one of the arts (writing):. Thursday, November 12, 2009. You already know how this story is going, right? So, what have I discovered so far?
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Mindscale: There and Back Again
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Weighing the possibilities in the arts, humanities, and education. Thursday, April 29, 2010. There and Back Again. If it hits the sonorous products of the Teaching Company, you can be certain it’s gone from trendy to enshrined. While the three previous books I’ve mentioned about India mostly dealt with India and people arriving there, this one pretty much concerns people who’ve bought a one way ticket and landed in the other direction—Indians lost and wandering around the U.S. Enter your email address:.
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Mindscale: September 2009
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Weighing the possibilities in the arts, humanities, and education. Monday, September 28, 2009. Good books about Great Books. Whenever non-homeschoolers find out that I’ve homeschooled the Nikipedia for the past 8 years, I immediately get one or both of the following questions: What about socialization? And, How did you know what to teach? The granddaddy of the genre has to be Clifton Fadiman’s. The New Lifetime Reading Plan. Susan Wise Bauer has a collection aimed at adults who would like to self-educate,.
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Mindscale: More ladies in distress—India
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Weighing the possibilities in the arts, humanities, and education. Friday, March 19, 2010. More ladies in distress—India. It’s tough out there. My previous post. Was about the plight of young Indian widows. It wasn’t so hot (or maybe it was, groan) for Western women who made their way there, either. East of the Sun. By Julia Gregson, is a chunky bedtime read about three women who travel to India pre-World War II to find husbands. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Mindscale: July 2009
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Weighing the possibilities in the arts, humanities, and education. Wednesday, July 29, 2009. Personal stimulus plan for the arts. My point is, all of these things are the training and proving grounds for the arts. If we want to enjoy innovative and creative arts, there has to be an audience that supports them. Plenty of us are interested in being seen ourselves. Couldn’t we benefit by seeing what others are doing? But if I am only for myself, then what am I? If not now, when? Monday, July 27, 2009. Could...
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Mindscale: January 2010
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Weighing the possibilities in the arts, humanities, and education. Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Magic in the kitchen. I’ve fallen in love again. Maybe I’m particularly susceptible and lord knows I’ve made some bad choices in the past, but this time I think it’s the real thing. A dear and now deceased friend of mine used to say, when looking at potential dates or other women’s husbands, “Where are the new men for the new women? Downs, and he plunged into assisting hers when, after many years, she actually...
