Doubt the Experts

After her 1947 strokes, McCullers increasingly required assistance from others to go about her daily life. She was partially paralyzed on he...

McCullers had a poor health history while growing up, and this continued for the remainder of her life. Generally, she had lung problems, an...

I've started this new biography by Mary V. Dearborn. On the whole, Carson McCullers is not an ideal subject for me, because I'm not ...

I'm getting off to a very slow start for reading this March and hope to pick up my pace a little. I have a new biography of Carson McCul...

This biography of Edward O. Wilson, by Richard Rhodes, was published in 2021, just before Wilson died at the age of ninety-two. I was reluct...

I've started reading a biography of E.O. Wilson, who died in 2021. It is short, and I'll probably comment on it on my next post. But...

I take my car to Burlington once a year for service, and this year, while I was up there, I was reminded of one of the things that has alway...

I am more or less caught up on everything that needed to be done regarding the house. The upstairs toilet didn't flush properly, and I r...

Of alluvial fields I dreamt. The idea of marriage: the great barrier reef with coral bleached and dying. Evidence of resilience, they say, a...

Thoreau's desire to meet and become well-acquainted with a Native American was fulfilled when he hired Joseph Polis as a guide for an 18...

I am not finding this book very rewarding but am plugging away and will finish up on my next post. The atmosphere in Concord changed when th...

The famous incident in which Thoreau was arrested for not paying his poll tax occurred in 1846. This was not a planned act of civil disobedi...

This biography is quite dense in detail and is moving along very slowly. There was a certain brotherly rivalry between John and Henry, and J...

This book, by Laura Dassow Walls, seems to be considered the best biography of Thoreau, and I'm giving it a try. I've already read b...

Like most years at this time, we have had some snow that didn't last. I have become accustomed to being snowed in later in the winter an...

 According to Harvard Medical School: The word neurodiversity refers to the diversity of all people, but it is often used in the context of ...

As I get older, I increasingly recognize the extent to which art is associated with social status. My Armenian great-grandfather lived in Bu...

One of the limitations of the property where I live is that, since the house is surrounded by trees, there isn't much of a view. But, wi...

I can't say that I enjoyed the remainder of the book, and I didn't spend much time on it, because I thought that Sapolsky was just r...