Its All About Me

Meg Polson at The College of Saint Rose Chronicle did a very nice senior profile on me called “Graduates life anything but ordinary.” It was distributed in print at graduation on May 10th with the following picture (photo credit: Tim Clune) which never made the online version.
Read the full story here.

PS: The title’s typo was produced by the paper’s editor, [...]

Aisha in Rwanda: In Need of Humanity

I have just received the following story from Kevin Sudi, the volunteer coordinator at Kenya’s Common Ground Program. Kevin asks that anyone willing to repost this article will do so freely.
IN NEED OF HUMANITY
At the base of the majestic Parc de Volcanes mountain in the north-western part of Rwanda, in the town of Musanze, is [...]

Quills: Voyeur as the Voice of Reason

The Voyeur as the Voice of Reason in Philip Kaufman’s Film Quills
Manipulation in film, not only of the objects within the frame but of the audience as well, has been the practice of film makers for decades. In Philip Kaufman’s Quills (2000), a biopic loosely based on the last years of life for the18th century [...]

Anne Finch: Creating Her Own Space

The poem “The Critick and The Writer of Fables” published in 1713 by Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, is an ambitious attempt at a satirical play on gendered and formal limitations of Augustan poetry. The critick is representative of a male poetic society, and yet by acquiring a voice from Finch within the poem, [...]