Although it’s Wednesday, the challenge for this week’s Sunday Scribbling is so perfectly timed, that I could not resist contributing (even a few days late). My almost 32 year old self decided to write letters to who I was half a lifetime ago, and half a lifetime in the future. ** Dear 16 Year Old …
Life is humming along. My research project is now in the data collection phase, and it will probably be there for awhile, given the sensitivity of the topic and the general difficulty of recruiting participants in crisis. I certainly did not propose an easy project for my fellowship, but I like a good challenge, dontcha …
It has been a long while since I have read anything by Toni Morrison (i.e., Song of Solomon, read during my freshman year of college, deserves a rereading, as I am sure my 31-year-old self would have much more to say about it than my 18-year-old self). Thus, as I used the NY Times Book …
Awhile back I bought myself some German cookbooks. Although I regularly read wonderful food blogs in English (e.g, Everbody Likes Sandwiches and Pinch my Salt), I find it difficult to translate both the measurements and the English into German — especially for those items that I would not recognize even in an American grocery store. …