The Greeks, Again
It's been a year since I've sat in a classroom. I've missed it. Between the wedding and the rehab, there wasn't much time for extraneous activities. Only that which demanded my attention received it in 2012. GRIN got off the ground, numbness was banished, children were married, and novels were read. So many, many novels were read last year, and I can't say that I learned nothing from any of them. But, there were no facts, there was no analysis, there was no conversation surrounding them. I needed a classroom experience, and Ms Levine's kindergarten was not what I wanted. I needed to feel challenged, to stretch my brain, to keep ideas and places and people in context. Amidst the plethora of opportunities presented by the University of Arizona's Humanities Seminars this semester, I found many smiles and one giant grin. Mike Lippman, who introduced me to Rome, is presenting Greece in 2013. My check was in the mail the day the br...