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  • Trail of Faces and a Chalk Dust Flower

    There were plenty of people at Union Square yesterday with tables set up, trying to make a buck off of their artwork.  Two artists were using a method of making art that you can’t really buy and take home, though.  One guy was making a trail of faces on the pavement and another made a…

  • The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Opening a New Door on History

    This is a writing assignment I did for a World Civ 100 class I’m currently taking.  Expect more regular updates soon. The question: First you should summarize the article, then give your thoughts about it and tell how it might be useful in our class and to the scholarly world in general. You can certainly…

  • First Trip to the Bronx and Meeting Extended Family Again After 25 Years

      Yesterday I went to a part of New York City that I’ve never seen before to see family members that I’d never met before (that I remember anyway).  I imagine most people in the US are in the same situation.  They know they have relatives in another part of the city, state or country,…

  • Secret Pigeon Farm in New York City

    I’m not sure how many times I’ve walked past this and thought I just saw two air conditioning units hanging from windows, which is not an uncommon site.  I even thought that maybe it was just pigeons sitting on a ledge that was part of an air conditioning mount.  So, I zoomed in with my…

  • Three Years Further On – An Anniversary Dedication

    Today is kind of a tough day for me.  Three years ago, my wife and I got married in Singapore.  I still remember walking down the street, holding her hand for the first time as husband and wife.  I loved her then, with all of my heart, and now, after three years, I love her…

  • The Effects of “Strange Fruit”

    The following is a main outline for a speech I wrote for my Speech Foundations class.  The information presented is true and includes a works cited section at the end of the blog post.  However, the information was presented in a fictional setting, with myself as a Professor of History at UGA speaking at the…

  • Speech Foundations Is Pretty Cool After All

    When I signed up for the Speech Foundations class I’m taking right now, I assumed it would be lame.  It’s a whole semester worth of one class packed into one month.  I thought there would be a lot of work, a lot of speaking, and… I mean just what can you really do in a…

  • Lies My Teacher Told Me, An Excellent Call To Action

    Lies My Teacher Told Me is a book that doesn’t try to correct everything wrong with our history, as portrayed in textbooks, but one that gives examples and then challenges the reader to take that information and use it in the future to find real truth in what we’re fed by public education institutions.  The…

  • Four Packages of Free Archway Cookies

    I’m one of those people that’s terribly unlucky when it comes to games of chance like the lotto or drawings for giveaways.  So, I was really skeptical, but hopeful, when an Archway rep responded to my earlier post about Archway cookies.  I mean, you never know who you’re talking to on the Internet right?  I…

  • A Shift in Self-Identified Important Virtues, In-Class Project

    In my Speech Foundations class today we did an interesting class project.  We were put into groups and we had to come up with a list of what we thought were common virtues that we thought were important as a group.  When all of the groups were done, the lists were put on the board. …