I like the coffee at Trader Joe’s. Either the Bay Blend (which doesn’t seem to come in decaf anymore) or the French Roast (which does). I’ve been up and down the coffee road — everything from mail-ordering Peet’s to going out of my way to pay $16/lb for Intelligensia beans. Beyond liking Trader Joe’s coffee, [...]
A little spot of good weather has come to Chicago! Even though we have to expect at least one more snow and some low temperatures before spring is really here (maybe in May), it was great to run outside this morning.
I used to harbor the false belief that somehow exercise got easier the more you [...]
Some years back, after listening to various friends in NYC complain about the high cost of private schools (and trying to assure them that nobody in these schools was getting rich…), I started to think that perhaps fundamentally many people believe that education should be free — at least through high school. That is not [...]
In “The End of Solitude” William Deresiewicz argues “If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility.” The computer has given us “connectivity”; the camera has created a “culture of celebrity” — and these two come [...]
