In combination with my earlier #alaac15 post, here is my plan for eating fantastic vegetarian food in San Francisco. I choose restaurants not only for their fantastic vegetarian options but for having things my non-vegetarian friends are likely to want as well. Also, I am not a healthy vegetarian when …
ALA 2015 is coming fast: June 25-30 in beautiful San Francisco, California. For those of you who don’t already know, this conference coincides with SF’s annual Pride Parade. Remember the chaos and shuttle interruptions when Chicago threw the Blackhawks their Stanley Cup Parade a few years back during ALA in …
“under-Ground” “Banned in San Diego” “Luxury for girls who can only afford the best” “For healthier mother & child in ecstasy” “Midwife to Royalty in 50 Countries” Found in Ferment in Medicine: a study of the essence of medical practice and of its new dilemmas by Richard M. McGraw (1966)
This was probably the best conference I have ever attended: sessions were short & to-the-point, and no concurrent sessions meant you did not have to make hard choices. Everyone attends every session. I made wonderful connections with people who are passionate about the preservation of personal materials like family audio …
A leaflet added to a religion book asks: “Where are the employees of God?” “Is life a school?” “Should war be ended?”
The only writing in the whole book is this question about how the author’s brother lived through Pickett’s Charge. It is strange to me that someone would choose to wonder that (and nothing else) in pen, in a library book.
“It is clear that the undisciplined life is susceptible to the heights of passion and the depths of emotion. I propose a system of principle that might lean my life toward passion’s heights, eliminating the influence of ?weariness? ?creative?. I intend to follow these principles alone in search of reason, …