Note: Sunday, September 9, 2012, State College, PA 5:57 PM, EDT. My friend Philip Moery is fond of quoting William Faulkner’s observation, “The past is never dead. It’s not even the past.” This observation became trenchant yesterday when I received a post from Scott W., who, like me, is a member of a lively discussion group […]
William Faulkner
Teach It Diligently to Your Children
Background for the ongoing story, did I return from the Democratic Convention and Tokyo in time to coach when my first child Joanna was born? See Part 1: https://joelsolkoff.com/?p=604 ++++ I remember clearly that astonishing first visit to the obstetrician, the one where I saw for the first time a sonic image of my first child inside […]
State College, PA – Celebrate Hemingway and the Scholarship that Makes Penn State More Than a Party School
Greatness comes in often curious packages. The greatness I have in mind, as I sit here in my apartment in State College, is Ernest Hemingway, a genius whose link to this area – through a combination of circumstances – is strong. “Hemingway made a difference,” wrote the late Philip Young, of Penn State’s English department. […]
Self: Cultural identity Judaism
The following appeared in Brit Shalom of State College, PA’s quarterly publication The Center Scroll, January/February 2011 Teach It Diligently to Your Children I remember clearly that astonishing first visit to the obstetrician, the one where I saw for the first time a sonic image of my first child inside her mother’s womb and […]