We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow ...
I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That ...
