Creating, collecting, and sharing thoughts and ideas. And learning along the way.
I recently took a trip to the lovely city of San Antonio, Texas, and had the pleasure of visiting the Alamo, the famous Mission where the Americans fought the Spanish in the middle of the nineteenth century. Check the Wiki entry for details on the historical significance of the battle and the place. A slideshow of the memories of our time there is right below:
Mental Health Break – Click on the Shinkansen ver.2 link below!
A high-speed trip from Shinosaka to Tokyo, to the tune of VanShe’s “So High”:
Great tune and a great ride too! I haven’t done this particular route, but I HAVE taken the Shinkansen from Nagoya to Tokyo.
Click on the link below the picture for the full NYT article. Do *you* have a certain look?
President Obama awarded the 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to 20 honorees, including Joyce Carol Oates.
The National Humanities Medal, inaugurated in 1997, honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities.
The official citation for JCO reads:
Joyce Carol Oates for her contributions to American letters. The author of more than fifty novels, as well as short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, Oates has been honored with the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Short Story.
Here are profiles of all of the medal recipients, at the National Endowment for the Humanities web site.
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About Randy Souther
I’m a Reference Librarian at the University of San Francisco’s Gleeson Library, and I run the Joyce Carol Oates web site, Celestial Timepiece.
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RCV on March 2, 2011 at 12:04 pm said:
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Bravo. Well deserved.
Congratulations, Joyce Carol Oates! I have long been your BIG fan!
