Yellow Springs News Blogs Section :: Page 23

• BLOG-Dream, Christmas

  By Amy MagnusDecember 27, 2015

  

  My children’s anticipation reaches fever pitch in the lead up to Christmas, the holiday that most challenges our definitions of aspiration and goodness.

• BLOG-Luck with Latkes

  By Amy MagnusDecember 20, 2015

  

  In the festival of lights, we celebrate miracles big and small.

• BLOG – Kafka – “reading Kafka will make you smarter”/monstrous exaggeration

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanDecember 17, 2015

  

  “The University of British Columbia and the University of California Santa Barbara did a study that showed the brain is more powerful after reading Kafka…Modern understandings are much more in line with the Kafka that his friends knew but even that treatment of his life can’t exist without some embellishment.”

• BLOG-Warm Up to Winter

  By Amy MagnusDecember 13, 2015

  

  The weather may be waiting to kick in in-season but the Village of Yellow Springs is in full winter holiday mode.

• Santa came to town

  By Suzanne SzempruchDecember 12, 2015

  

  The Annual Pancake Breakfast with Santa was a hit yet again this year!

• BLOG – Kafka – evolving perceptions, and my personal history

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanDecember 10, 2015

  

  “I had no conception of his renown or the reverence he was accorded – I simply found that his ideas and his utterly inimitable style of writing meshed well with whatever was echoing in my own imagination…anyone that knew Kafka remembered that he was immensely kind and charming, and that he spoke in a ‘mellifluous baritone.'”

• BLOG— New home blues

  By Audrey HackettDecember 8, 2015

  

  Life feels fragile when it’s bundled into boxes, especially when it’s bundled into boxes marked “FRAGILE,” a poignant convergence of packing parlance and metaphor.

• BLOG-Ease On Down The Road

  By Amy MagnusDecember 7, 2015

  

  Now that a new sidewalk has been installed, we will be singing our newfound anthem from The Wiz along Xenia Avenue.

• BLOG— Birding is easy!

  By Audrey HackettDecember 1, 2015

  

  For me, though, the heron was the total heart-throb, the show-stopper, the bird of birds. His rosy neck and blue-grey shoulders rippled like water; he was water flying over water, an awesome feat of paint and metaphysics.

• BLOG-Stone Soup

  By Amy MagnusNovember 29, 2015

  

  In making Stone Soup for the annual Antioch School supper, my daughter was keen to bring the carrots…the first ingredient after the stone and salt.