Sports of The Times: Does Calgary Really Want the Winter Olympics? Does Anyone? — NYT > Home Page
The Norwegians, the greatest of all Winter Olympic countries, found too many expenses and too much potential environmental damage. Pass.
What to Cook: What to Cook Right Now — NYT > Home Page
I thought about what I would make when I got back. I thought about it a lot: karaage, Japanese fried chicken
Facebook Watch gets a news show to tackle fake news – CNET — CNET News
Facebook’s latest attempt to tackle fake news
Can “Joy” really be so simple
The book by Amy Bloom did not take me by surprise. I had read “Eleanor Roosevelt” by Blanche Wiesen Cook, and “No Ordinary Time”, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I’d also read “Eleanor and Hick” by Susan Quinn, so I felt I already knew a piece of the whole. This would fill in some of the spaces in my mind of what it might have been like, and looked like, from this imaginative and unusual point of view.
fragrance is powerful
fragrance is powerful, and scent becomes memory
“—we usually give very little thought to where our faces come from. Yet..”
We are creatures of nature and nurture and ideally, empathy.
An interesting distinction: “When agencies cooperate, one defines the problem and seeks help with it. When they act jointly,”
In reading this book by James R. Clapper, I found this very interesting distinction. I use the word collaborate often,
Ethel Leontine Gabain 1883–1950
She was one of the only artists of her time able to make a living through sales of lithographs
EGON SCHIELE
Schiele’s body of work is noted for the intensity and the large number of self-portraits
Saber de dónde viene el miedo
Durante una escala en el aeropuerto de Atlanta Georgia, mientras sentada en la sala de espera. De un grupo de pasajeros se separó un caballero, y hablando por su móvil se siento a mi lado.
I realized, I was sitting next to a high school classmate
I was at the Atlanta Heartfelt Airport waiting at the gate for my flight. Someone came by, and while talking
better at it than before
When do projects take a life of their own? The size of the project may have something to do with
