Woodland Shoppers Paradise

This is a video I've wanted to edit for more than 20 years. Really. For even longer than that, I've had a love affair with retro-...

Yeah, it's been quite a while since I've attended to this blog. Spring has sprung a plethora of projects and deadlines: new humani...

Following up on a recent post featuring a zoomable view of San Jose "Normal School," I'm posting a 1909 aerial view. Check ou...

While researching elocutionism at San José State University, I spent some time reviewing old catalogs. One, from 1918-1919, included a pull-...

Quick visit to Santa Cruz yesterday, and I saw this lovely mural. Actually I've seen it for years; it was executed by Peter Bartczak ba...

Continuing my lecture-prep on Emerson, I have been drawn back to his essay, “The Over-Soul.” Here are a few quotations that rose to great me...

Daguerreotype of Ralph Waldo Emerson from Wikipedia Preparing for a lecture on Transcendentalism, I enjoyed an opportunity to review E...