From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Remember this guy?

27 July 2008

Randy Pausch, Carnegie-Mellon professor, whose Last Lecture went viral? He died on Thursday of pancreatic cancer. I thought I’d take the time to link to some tributes.  Well, this one anyway. The Online Legacy of Professor Pausch – Well – Tara Parker-Pope – Health – New York Times Blog

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Follow-up to African Reading Challenge

26 July 2008

The fate of migrants is the same – Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean, does it matter? Laila Lalami linked to this photo-essay taken in Italy of North African migrants. The similarities between the essay and what we see here with Haitian migrants are striking. I’ve been carrying around Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits for days now, trying [...]

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My Africa Reading List

26 July 2008

If I take part, that is. What’s under my belt is pretty male and middle-century, and so I thought I’d branch out with some female voices and writing from more recent times Adichie (Nigeria) - Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun Emecheta (Nigeria) – The Joys of Motherhood Ngugi (Kenya) – Wizard of the Crow Baingana [...]

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Coming Late to the Party

23 July 2008

And not knowing whether I will take part because I can barely keep up, but: There’s a reading challenge going on this year that I’d like to alert people to, just in case. It’s the Africa Reading Challenge: Participants commit to read – in the course of 2008 – six books that either were written [...]

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Oh, Look Wha Ya Do To Me

20 July 2008

That wasn’t what the concert was called, but it should’ve been.  Because if anybody doubted that we Bahamians have a lack of love for our country or our icons, last night’s event — entertainment maestro Ronnie Butler‘s farewell concert — proved them wrong.   I’m not going to say all that much.  This isn’t going [...]

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Warning: Going to Upgrade Again

20 July 2008

Now. WordPress 2.6 is not a major upgrade like 2.5, but it’s an upgrade anyway.  And upgrading runs risks. Not that this has been the most active blog in the recent past (I have a lot to say but no real liberty of saying it) but people do stop by every now and then. I [...]

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Thoughts on Independence

8 July 2008

I don’t know whether this is the best title for this post.  All I really wanted to do was to quote this paragraph from this post: “Say nothing of my religion,” Jefferson once said. “It is known to myself and my God alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; [...]

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