by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 29, 2011 | The Universal Flow
We read Cantos VI through X in The Inferno of Dante (Robert Pinsky translation) for class today. I so enjoyed Dante the poet’s message in Canto VII — how vain worldly goods are and what part Lady Fortune plays in our lives. Here we have Virgil driving the...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 29, 2011 | Write Thinking
The convergence of so much — a few episodes of House Hunters International, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, the Independent Handbag Designer Awards a la InStyle magazine, and the advanced age of the students in my Dante’s Inferno class —...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 27, 2011 | The Universal Flow
Loved this Pablo Picasso quote from a recent edition of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac: “Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 27, 2011 | Write Thinking
The nugget of treasure found in my Sunday New York Times yesterday was an opinion piece about shyness and introversion by Susan Cain. The article — called Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic? — was so illuminating. It helped explain some of my own life...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 24, 2011 | Write Thinking
Rarely do I get this personal in Game Plan, but when I saw articles about a ForbesWoman/YourTango survey on dating and the unemployed, I had to get in there. Especially when I read the ensuing shortsighted and shallow comments on discussions of it. Today’s Game...
