To him who in love nature holds

To him who in love nature holds

The last time I thought about William Cullen Bryant was in 1982 when most of my friends were wandering around the hallways at Xavier High School sort of glassy-eyed and mumbling the last stanza of Thanatopsis. “So live, that when thy summons comes to join   The innumerable caravan, which moves   To that mysterious realm, where [...]

Finding Nemo and a Chinese dumpling in the city that never sleeps

We slid into New York Friday morning, one of the last planes to land at LaGuardia ahead of Nemo, the curiously named blizzard that skimmed Manhattan before slamming the East Coast. With exactly 46.5 hours to spend and a New York Neophyte on board, we barely notice the sleet pelting our taxi. We noticed a [...]