Jane Haddam

Well, okay.  Not quite. But I was bringing together a bunch of things–one of them JD’s comment a week or so ago that although Hanson says that the liberal arts teach logical thinking, etc, apparently they don’t anymore. And that, believe it or not, popped to the surface of my brain while reading Steiner on…

So, what can I say? I’m sleeping in.  I’m not on my home computer.  I don’t have to set the alarm clock for at least the next five weeks–well, except on Christmas morning–and so I find myself almost impossible to get started on the day. I find it odd sometimes how much routine depends on…

Okay, second post of the day.  This is Victor Davis Hanson on the liberal arts: http://townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2010/12/16/in_defense_of_the_liberal_arts I’m going to go do somthing now.

I have a real tendency to inertia–I don’t think I always did, but maybe I’m getting older, or maybe I’m getting stale–it’s hard to tell. At any rate, I just did a whole lot of paperwork, and I did another lot yesterday, and now I’m almost free up to not worry about much for a…

This post was actually supposed to be about something else, but I ended up in the middle of something.  That means I can’t really sit down and concentrate on…well, anything. What I can concentrate on–momentarily–is what I saw on television this morning.  I turned it on to get some idea of the weather, which is…

So, let me try to start from some sort of beginning here.  This http://www.slate.com/id/2275733/pagenum/all/ showed up this morning on Arts and Letters Daily, and I recommend it to you for a number of reasons, probably not the ones the writer of it thought he was writing it for. Okay.  It’s early in the morning.  The…

Can I remind everybody, before I start, that if you’re having trouble getting the program to allow you to post, you should e-mail and we’ll fix it? We haven’t had that kind of complaint for a while, but I don’t know if it’s fixed or if people are just giving up.  Whatever, it’s Sunday, and…

Or, at least, break. Classes are over.  Next week there are exams, and then…well, I don’t know about then.  Several weeks, at least, where I don’t have to set the alarm clock for myself, at any rate. But to get to the point here:  on the principle that I’m incapable of doing anything  this term…

Well, okay.  That could cover a lot of ground. What I really meant when I wrote that title was:  all I want for Christmas is a title for this damned book, which is not a Gregor but does take place just around Christmas and in a bed and breakfast that allows cats. But it’s not a…

It’s one of those days, so this isn’t likely to be extensive. For those of you who didn’t see, Mique posted the following link http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2010/11/introduction-to-kenneth-minogue That goes to an Australian magazine which has excerpted a bit from the book I was talking about yesterday. It’s a good book, and I’m sort of sorry that the…