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Michael L McClain
St James, NY
Life is like a festival. Some come to compete, some to ply their trade, but the best people come as spectators.
Pythagoras
April 9, 2012
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January 1, 2012
November 12, 2011
Yesterday, as I was reading an article by two Stony Brook psychiatrists in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, I came across a word I had not heard before.
October 10, 2011
When Alice told me that she would read James Joyce's Ulysses for her class in Modernism during the coming semester, I decided to prepare for her late-night telephone queries by reading it ahead of her. July 3, 2011
You have to hand it to Wendy—she stays on top of things. When the initial review of The Book of Mormon appeared in the New York Times, she went upstairs and ordered matinee tickets for a mere $137 each.
May 25, 2011
January 19, 2011
For years I've disliked containers that stand bottom side up. When they first came out, I didn't trust them. I imagined the honey escaping its plastic jar, spreading among the spices, gluing them to the shelf...
October 19, 2010
Soon after Wendy told me we had tickets to see Orlando at the Classic Stage Center in Manhattan, The New York Times published a review. I discovered that the play is an adaptation by Sarah Ruhl of a novel by Virginia Woolf in which "a young English nobleman goes to bed one night a duke and wakes up a duchess."
September 29, 2010
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August 24, 2010
August 9, 2010
August 2, 2010
This past weekend, Wendy and I attended the Eighteenth Biennial International Workshop/Conference on Teaching Philosophy. It was not as stuffy as it might sound.
July 25, 2010
June 29, 2010
June 23, 2010
Last Saturday, Wendy and I went into the city to see the exhibition of the The Art of Illumination at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I had seen it, but Wendy had not. It was well worth a second look.