First song on the radio this morning (honest!) and it’s still rattling around my brain. They are out of coffee at work, maybe I should switch.. Up every morning at the crack of dawn Nights as short as the days are long Life turned out to be another magazine Livin’ with a stranger now Girl […]
Again, this morning, for about the ninth time in a week, my son and I blew up at each other. (Yesterday was the exception) On the one hand, I feel like he is deliberately baiting me by saying or doing things that I’ve already made clear are not acceptable. On the other hand, it is […]
Human History, in 60 seconds. (no, it’s not mine, it’s his) Human History Alan Charles Kors George H. Walker Endowed Term Professor of History First, tribes: tough life. The defaults beyond the intimate tribe were violence, aversion to difference, and slavery. Superstition: everywhere. Culture overcomes them partially. Rainfall agriculture, which allows loners. Irrigation agriculture, which […]