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February 12, 2021March 15, 2021

Schubert and the sea of choices

Henry David Thoreau portrait against a Google map of Concord, MA
February 4, 2021May 24, 2021

My neighbor Thoreau

An orange football in a grid of black-and-white Shakespeare portraits
December 9, 2020March 9, 2021

Where are the great books about high school football?

Metal knight helmet and mask with horns
November 24, 2020December 9, 2020

MY GREAT TEACHER/ Beowulf with belly laughs

A man and woman sit on a large slab of rock
November 19, 2020November 24, 2020

WONDER OF THE DAY / Against Geologies

Black and white upshot of seven tall birch trees
October 22, 2020March 17, 2021

I think that I shall never see

Vladimir Nabokov, age 2, in high chair against a backdrop of oranges
October 9, 2020March 9, 2021

The toddler’s predicament

Black and white Peter Rabbit eats orange carrots in a vegetable garden
September 26, 2020November 12, 2020

A visit to Eden

Black and white farmer rides horse-drawn plow in still from old film
September 14, 2020November 3, 2020

The Wayback Machine

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Street in Florence, Italy, with BAR sign in foreground and Palazzo Vecchio tower in background. Photo by Steve Netsky.
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