Saw the question in an interview and it made me think. First, apologies for the recent blog silence. This weekend we celebrated my grandmother’s life with tears, laughter, music and song. Consequently it has been a hectic and family-filled weekend. Now it is over though, and I can now try to catch back up to [...]

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This is definitely not a book review. First the disclaimer. This blog post will almost certainly not be a completely unbiased examination of the book, A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters. Simply put, the author is my personal idol, a woman whose life and work has not only touched me, but in fact [...]

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And other current events. I’ve decided to concentrate on all the good things that have happened (or are happening) lately, and let them drown out the stresses from this past week. So today I’m celebrating a list of things. In no particular order, they are: My birthday last Monday. My grandfather’s 91st birthday today! My first [...]

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Some thoughts on straddling the divide between fiction and academia. I was recently reading an article by Richard P. Martin* of Stanford University titled Words Alone Are Certain Good(s): Philology and Greek Material Culture. It is basically a warning article by a philologist to other philologists not to forget the importance of archeology and material [...]

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