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There are many things I want to say to many people, but I find myself obstructed and frustrated by little, seemingly insignificant things, such as timing, and pride and embarrassment and self-serving, self-protecting speculations that they might already know what I want to say. I want to tell you that I am sorry for leaving, for not being there, ( Read more... )

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And here's one that made me tear up ;)

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Anyway, life has been rather blah. I'll be spending half of reading week catching up to lectures that I've missed/ponned so huzzah. ;/

"It seems to me that being authentic is being brave enough or just candid enough to be honest about what you are experiencing or who you are, whether it is popular are not. A person gives a gift to other people when they say, 'This is what happened to me or this is how I truly feel, no matter what the popular belief is about what I should feel.' ( Read more... )

"The separation of sociology and history is a disastrous division, and one totally void of epistemological justification: All sociology should be historical and all history sociological."
-Bourdieu and Wacquant, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology

Anne Roiphe: My Late Husband’s Words

It was mid-December of 2005. I don’t know why he said it. I don’t know if a shadow had fallen across him, something appalling he saw out of the corner of his eye. I don’t know if it was just coincidence or intuition that prompted him, but about a week before my seemingly healthy 82-year-old husband suddenly died ( Read more... )

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