Rose Cantine

Happy New Year!

If you love reading, you will appreciate the speech that Doris Lessing gave on December 8 when she accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is printed in The Guardian, my favorite newspaper:
Last night Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa [...]

The other night I was chopping vegetables for a minestrone (from Alice Waters wonderful new book called The Art of Simple Food). I was angry about something — I can’t remember what — but three times the knife landed on my left hand thumbnail, causing little cuts. I am fortunate I did not actually cut [...]

Of all the clueless things in the world, check this out: the New York Times reports that “the American military lost track of some 190,000 pistols and automatic rifles supplied by the United States to Iraq’s security forces in 2004 and 2005, as auditors discovered in the past year.”
Gosh, where on earth could they have [...]

It’s Labor Day in the US, the traditional end of the summer, and beginning of a new school year. Over here in Amsterdam, it’s just another working day, but this week marks the first week that everyone is really back from holiday. I have posted several articles recently about what it means to be an [...]

What does it feel like to have a video camera shoved in your face at the end of your run when you’re sweaty? No one likes to be photographed or filmed looking like this, but that’s exactly what happened to me today after a long run in the park.
I was standing in front of the [...]

I am in San Francisco for the Supernova 2007 conference. I flew in from Amsterdam yesterday afternoon and in the early evening, went to a party sponsored by Jaiku. Today, I chaired a panel on better broadband. There are parties tonight and tomorrow night, plus two more days of conference sessions. I’m exhausted and jet [...]