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Poet in gold jacket Join us on Sunday, May 9, 2021 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Megan Fernandes. Workshop Description: Experimental Writing This generative writing workshop guides students through different forms and prompts of experimental writing in the 20th century beginning with the innovations of modernism and ending with feminist diasporic poetry. The goal of the class is to loosely define and explore the “playfulness” of experimentation an...

The seven- and nine-year-olds questioned why they had to do what I said because “you’re not our mom.” The four-year-old, though, quickly became my friend. (No—more than that. More than what a simple word could describe.) At the library, she sat on my lap for story time while her siblings bickered at the computers. I read her books, made paper crowns with her and those top hats that she called a “gentlemen’s hat,” and ran her to the bathroom each time I heard her little kid voice ...

For those mentally afflicted by the pandemic Hakol Bseder Haggadah (Courtesy of Bari Mitzmann/JTA) Bari Mitzmann, a Jewish blogger with a sizable Instagram following, for the second year has spearheaded a joint Haggadah project she calls “HaKol B’Seder” — in Hebrew it can mean either “everything in the Seder” or “it’s all good.” Her thorough Haggadah and broader guide to the holiday weaves in an array of female voices — ranging from chefs to moms to therapists — who either...

It’s a golden age for creative haggadahs.

I Sang Through Labor to Manage the Pain Turns out, women have been singing, chanting and humming through childbirth for centuries. But can it actually provide relief? Credit...Lily Snowden-Fine March 9, 2021 Back in the summer of 2016, when I was about to give birth and enduring one debilitating contraction after another, I was struck with an idea: What if I were to sing through the agony? With a karaoke YouTube video pulled up on my husband’s phone, I began belting out lyrics to Jimmy Buffet...

Divide et impera. Divide and rule: the approach of choice for many historical conquerors, and also a great way to write a novel. Breaking apart something that was once whole to examine the pieces provides the novelist with an approach fit for a whole range of subjects. I’ve found so many books following that pattern that I couldn’t begin to list them all. But the good news is that I’ve only been asked to talk about five here, so I’ve picked five that have lodged themselves in my brain, ...

You’re certainly right about the spending drop in the bucket. But overall I still think it’s probably a waste. If the objective is some kind of human landing or achieving a base on Mars, isn’t this pointless? NASA has concluded that Mars can’t be terraformed. And why send a few human beings to a desolate rock? That said, I deeply believe in space exploration. In fact, I’d pour a lot more money into it. But rockets aren’t the answer. They can’t take us to anyplace worth going to. W...

Courtesy of Nikki Campo For two years, my 6-year-old daughter Ruby has begged us to open a “restaurant” in our backyard. Before the pandemic, I would take 30 seconds to explain why we couldn’t do it, then I’d redirect her to a supersized puzzle. But this winter, she added a twist to her pitch: "We could ask for money and give it to charity.” Unable to resist such altruism from a 6-year-old, I paused. "I want to see a detailed plan," I said. Usually, asking for a written plan is a no...

There’s still the battery problem. One of Tesla’s big innovations was the switch to lithium batteries and they started out by trying to design a battery pack that wouldn’t easily catch on fire. As we now know those efforts were mixed at best. Earllier electrc hybrids like the Prius did not use lithium. PlutoniumKun Its a strange problem when the costs are dropping constantly, virtually month by month, and the power outputs of the batteries are going up all the time. The price of lithium h...