Posts by sarcozona
Hooray for summer!
I turned my last term paper in yesterday morning. Finishing the last assignment/exam of a semester always feels so good! I spent the rest of day repotting plants and retrieving my summer clothes from the depths of the hall closet. Today, I’ve got to get some work done, but I’m planning on making a grapefruit […]
I’ll Be Back!
I’d apologize for the lack of blogging, but I’m pretty sure most of my readers have either experienced the end of a semester or heard me whine enough to understand exactly why I’ve disappeared the last few weeks. I don’t actually have any finals this semester, but I do have large papers and projects to […]
Weekly Top 5
Amazon.com Widgets
What I’ve Noticed
Pirates: some historical perspective and a bit of context. The ability to synchronize and our ability to cooperate. The World Digital Library. All kinds of interesting books, maps, and artifacts from around the world. I hope I’m this cool when I’m 100. Similarities between the anti-global warming misinformation campaign and the tobacco industry’s misinformation campaign. […]
Weekly Top 5
I’ll probably be too busy the next few weeks to do any real posting, but here’s some good music to tide you over. Amazon.com Widgets
Cozy
Outside it is snowing very hard and is very very cold. Last night the wind blew the ice into the windows so hard I couldn’t sleep. I am glad to be inside and wrapped up in my coziest sweats and am enjoying my work. If the deadlines weren’t so soon, I’d be enjoying it more. […]
A sense of place
I attended a lecture by Robin Kimmerer several weeks ago. I’ve been frustrated with how people see environmental problems as “not their problem,” but Dr. Kimmerer’s lecture helped me understand both why that occurs and how we could go about helping people understand the relationship between their own lives and the health of the environment […]