Did you all like my disappearing act? Next, I'll saw my assistant in half! But really, what have I been up to in the past month?

• Copyediting. A lot.
• Watching Leverage. (Thanks to lyster and publius513 for the recommendation!)
• Watching Eureka, on which my friend Margaret Dunlap is a writing assistant.
• Realizing that catching up on back episodes of cool TV shows takes ( Read more... )

Rich was kind enough to send a second dispatch from the trip, this time from Skellig Michael. I'll post without further ado, though I may decide to write some of my own memories about that site. It's a wonderfully liminal space, and I think Rich has captured some of that here ( Read more... )

Back in 2006 when I made my first voyage to Ireland with Mark Vecchio and students, I had the privilege of getting to know then theater student, Rich Vaden. Since then, I've traveled with Rich to Turkey and Greece on another one of the myth tours (where he performed a Homeric Hymn for our group in the theater at Delphi), have seen him perform in ( Read more... )