A Slow Week?
The week between Christmas and New Years has always seemed like a bonus week to me – a gift when no-one expects business to get done, when you actually have the time to clean up your home a bit more (me? I cleaned the dish drying rack) and ideally tackle a project or two.
While I am working from home this week, I’ll also be plotting two courses I’d like to teach this summer, “Gender in Virtual Worlds” an upper level women’s studies course, and “1960s” an upper level history course. Both will be taught online over 6 week periods this summer. It’s been a while since I returned to the 1960s, but I’m thinking about using my book, “Daniel Shays’s Legacy? Marshall Bloom, Radical Insurgency and the Pioneer Valley as the outline.
What are you going to tackle this week?
Happy Holidays
I spent far too much time this year playing in Photoshop. Much of it was inspired by the wonderful video series, “You Suck at Photoshop” Then I stumbled into the weird world of digital scrapbooking and just had to see what I could come up with.
So I present for you, our family holiday card.
Trade off?
I completely understand the furor over the selection of an anti-gay, pro-life minister for an inaugural speaker. But in the world of pragmatic politics, I’m going to let that slide if is a peace offering to distract Christian conservatives from causing a ruckus over the repeal of abstinence only education, which I heard was proposed last week and flew completley under the radar. [Now my source for that is a commentator on Fox News, and a google search couldn't confirm the story.]
And while we are at it, instead of writing a blank check to Detroit, let’s actually buy cars from them, — electric cars, hybrid cars, smart cars — can we replace the government fleet? Can we have a lottery and give the cars away?