Among the many reasons I find myself fascinated by modern adaptations of Sherlock Holmes is the way they always implicitly address one of the themes that speaks to me: the relationship between expressing emotions and strength. Most Sherlock Holmes characters swear by the Great Detective’s lived maxim that (paraphrased) emotion…
How did I do with last year’s goals? Who can really say? … This blog. This blog can say. 1. How to own a condo or other residence. Oy yoy yoy, the Toronto housing market. Husband deserves all the credit on this one–he really dug into the market and the…
Here are 10 things I learned in 2019. 1. How to stop squirreling things away I am really bad about hanging onto stuff. Used to be, my big excuse was that I “might need it.” That one, I’ve got over; at the start of the year, my bigger excuse was…
Well, not really in December–as you may notice, we’re barely a week in. But I have to make room for my New Year’s blogs, don’t I? Anyway, here’s an incomplete list of small things–media and otherwise–that have been making my life better this final quarter. STEVEN UNIVERSE MOVIE!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!! :D…
Hello, everyone. I’m Professor Byleth, but you can call me Byleth. This course has no syllabus because apparently those don’t exist at Garreg Mach monastery, so I’m NOT going to spend the first 30 minutes of today going over some important course policies… … is what I would say if…
It’s cliché by now for affluent thirtysomethings like me to say we don’t feel like grown-ups. I mean, I don’t. I teach university students who are usually between 18 and 21 years old, and my gut feeling is that I’m close to “their age.” It doesn’t help that my gender…
I am slogging through my WiP at a disastrously slow rate, and I realized there are two things dragging me down: First, my main character is a ghost who hangs out by herself a lot due to the whole being-a-ghost thing. I hate action with only one character! That means…
I told you I was embracing “crotchety.” 1. Clothing fits with arbitrary people names. Why is your line of skinny pants now re-branded “Dustin”? Do people named “Dustin” tend to wear skinny pants? Do you want me to think that if I buy your pants in this fit, I, too,…
Shana tova! Hope my fellow Jews out there have a sweet and healthy new year! Here are a few things I’ll be carrying over from the “old year” to make sure my new one is just that: 1. Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin…
One of my pet peeves is when critics make arguments about characters played by multiple actors (for example, in theatre) based only on the text of the script. We see this kind of argument a lot in when, for instance, historians assess the accuracy of plays that depict historical figures,…