Category «Margins»

Parks for sale

No, not National Parks (though they seem to be for sale to loggers and oil companies these days), but Rosa Parks. It seems that corporate America has decided to capitalize on the the Civil Rights activist most frequently (and somewhat erroneously) credited with launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. So now we can add Rosa to …

The Great American Novel

What did insomniacs do before the internet?  I’m half convinced that if I didn’t have an internet connection, I’d be most of the way to the great american novel.  Or, maybe only part of the way, because I seem to be waffling between nights of 9 or 10 hours of sleep and nights with nada.  …

October

It’s the season when leaves and loves slowly make their way to cold storage. And that means that it’s time for the MLB division playoffs. And small confessions. I’m a person of distant and torn loyalties this fall — none of them having to do with my secret (and most likely now permanent) soft spot …

Cardinal Sean in Rome

Being a student of U.S. Catholicism, and someone who is interested new media, I was intrigued to see the other day that Sean Cardinal O’Malley of Boston is blogging his current trip to Rome. Of course, most U.S. Catholics have no idea what happens inside the secretive walls of the Vatican — and in some …

Because I'm moderately incompetent….

So, I’ve switched over to wordpress…. but because most days I only half know what I’m doing, I installed the stuff in a new directory.  So, the address of this blog is changing.  Come visit the shiny new site http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/sharon/bracket/, and update your RSS feeds.