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Philadelphia: Censoring Truth at The President’s House Exhibit
Philadelphia: Censoring Truth at The President’s House Exhibit by Diana Day
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Go Slow
Zekavat Trip, Post #2 When I wrote the Zekavat grant proposal, I dreamed of being a “slow tourist” so I could savor the cultures and locales that inspired the great modernist literature and drama I had read in my college course. I figured that going slowly and being very selective about the activities in each…
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Serendipity and Reminiscence: A Literary, Dance, and Visual Arts Pilgrimage Through Modernist Dublin, London, Paris, and Berlin
Zekavat Trip, Post #1 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta I did a thing this spring, took a leap of faith. Now that my children are launching their own lives, time flows differently than it did when my primary focus was mothering. I find myself randomly…
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Brave: New World?
Not so much, sorry to say. My husband and I choked back the bile that leaps into the throats of the middle class when the person behind the glass at the movie theater says, “That will be $50, please,” and took our girls to go see Brave this afternoon. I couldn’t resist the previews — that…
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You had me at the chocolate
I confess it: I love Valentine’s Day. I love the red outfits people wear, Valentine socks, Valentine cookies, vintage Valentines, making Valentines, corny Valentine jewelry, all of it. It’s all an excuse to say, “I love you” to folks you care about, and I don’t see a problem with that. And I loved Google’s Doodle…
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Pedal on, sister
Sometimes I miss my California friends so much that my lungs hurt. When this happens, I take comfort in the fact that I am so much closer to many old friends and to family, too. But this past summer, an old friend left Philly. She is not terribly far, but just far enough so that…
BeTwinned
[Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered]
