( source ) "The study of effects, because discontinuous, appear as occultism"                Dutifully reading my McLuha...

It's a certain canine's 14th birthday today. As he's always been partial to pancakes, Kathryn cooked him a gluten-free one so ...

It's been unseasonably warm lately, but on Tuesday Winter's true nature finally showed up. Everyone's feeling the chill.

Watch as Marshall McLuhan discusses civilization's return to the tribe with the emergence of electric media: Although the video cuts o...

( source ) As a piece of technology, the clock is a machine that produces uniform seconds, minutes, and hours on an assembly-line pattern...

So that  was a new experience. Tuesdays and Fridays you'll find me at Panera, working diligently on my research from about 6:30/7 to 2...

As I continue to research, I'm re-reading bits from one of my favorite books and re-discovered this passage in which Postman discusses ...

"The contribution that science can make to labor is to render it easier by the help of a tool or a process, and to assure the laborer o...

A few days ago I came across this Huffington Post article entitled "Why are Young, Educated Americans Going Back to the Farm?"  (f...

sewed a dress and a fitted shell using my bodice sloper was treated to a farewell lunch at the Carolina Inn by my dear coworkers at the S...

T he SHC has been collaborating with Historic Stagville , and the final project in my practicum is creating an exhibit on some of the ensla...

6 o'clock buzzed in much too soon, but we had to shower, pack, check out, and get to Westminster Abbey by 8. On our bus ride home ...

Goodness gracious it's August already. As I gear up for my move, submit my IRB application, finish my practicum at the SHC, and play h...

finished  (as much as one can say "finished") fitting my bodice sloper; it's only taken me three years transcribed  a lette...

It was not until the advent of the telegraph that messages could travel faster than a messenger. Before this, roads and the written word wer...

By that morning, our third day in England, I could feel myself adjusting to the time change and even to life as a tourist. We had much to do...

I originally wrote this as one of last week's bullet points, but it got too cumbersome for the format. Here's more about that little...

decided on Sunday afternoon that I wanted to sew a fitted summer dress and set about drafting a bodice; of course, I got hung up on fitting...

M y mom and sister's return from England has reminded me of my own most recent trip in the summer of 2008. I originally started this blo...

focused upon staying hydrated--I pour my 64 oz of water into a big pitcher and drink it down through the day baked baguettes and my new fa...