Yeats and High School Inspiration
Michael Gallagher When I was sixteen and feeling whatever it is that angry high school kids feel, I do remember reading a poem by Yeats. This changed me entirely and I have…
Librarian Avengers
I am loving this site, which tries to poke fun at the whole notion of librarians as stodgy curmudgeon who lives cats and quiet. It is is an appropriate title:…
Coolest websites, according to Time
This is worth a look as it basically does all the work for you. It is a list of the coolest websites according to category. For those of you who…
Airfare websites
I have recently become enamored of two websites designed for finding cheap airfare. Rather than go to a thousand different websites looking for a variey of deals, these pool all…
Shirt Tales
I am not going to explain this except to say that there was a member of the ill-conceived cartoon Shirt Tales, a monkey perchance, whose names was Bogey because he…
National Novel Writing Month
November is National Novel Writing Month. Basically, the premise is you have to write a novel in the course of month. You post your word counts online on a day…
Africa
I have seen my feelings towards Africa fluctuate between pity and fascination, between despair and glimpses of hope. Working for a non-profit that deals primarily with Africa has shown me…