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Morality and Rodgers and Hammerstein Musicals
My childhood home was filled with the sounds of musicals. My father loved them and they played a central role in our entertainment world—especially when we lived in Turkey (1955-61). Dad and I played the 33-1/3” records over and over … Continue reading
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Tagged film, joy, King and I, Oklahoma, sorrow, Sounds of Music, South Pacific, values
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The Inexplicable Menace in a Seemingly Neutral Object
Monica Wood’s suggestion (in The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration), to write about an ‘inexplicable menace in a seemingly neutral object’ intrigued me. It reminded me of my own rather extreme irritation—based on a sense of inequity, a kind of menace—with … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, agroforestry, development, Ghana, Indonesia, Malawi, matriliny, menace, patriliny, population, regression analyses, Sumatra, tenure
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Women (and Non-White Men) at the Top (or Not?)
For two decades, I’ve been involved with the CG system—-that’s the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, an umbrella body that supervises some 15 or so international agricultural research centers. One of the Directors General (DGs) is about to leave; … Continue reading
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Tagged CGIAR, developing country scientist, Director General, equity, justice, woman
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Spring has Sprung–at Last
We had a lovely respite, beautiful blue skies, warm temperatures, for a week in late March. Then the winter that had never truly come hit us in April. This pseudo-winter is only now beginning to abate. Yesterday (and today) again … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, flower, garden, Indonesia, New Zealand, Oklahoma, pavlova, pineapple, strawberry, Turkey, vegetable, weeds
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The ‘Sandwich Generation’, Port William and Borneo
That ‘times change’ is a truism. It’s one that has been occupying my mind now for several months. And some of these thoughts came back to me this morning, after reading a short article about “late-forming families” in Anthropology News … Continue reading
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Tagged caretaker, children, grandchildren, grandparents, Kentucky, Konvalinka and Corrochano, Long Ampung, Long Segar, Oklahoma, parents, Wendell Berry
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Songs and Gender
A book arrived in the mail, from Duke University Press—unrequested, probably intended as a candidate for review in the journal Agriculture and Human Values, for which I am the book review editor. The book, Unearthing Gender, is an ethnographic analysis … Continue reading
An Ongoing Saga – this time, dementia
A year or so after my father died in 1994, my mother took up with a man whose wife had been her bosom pal prior to her death not long after my father’s. My mother and her partner have been … Continue reading
The Last Few Months of a Life
Two things prompted me to write about my father’s illness and death. A friend suggested that I share my experience of eldercare, experiences that so many people are struggling with these days; and I saw a wonderful blog ( reviewed … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, Dana Walrath, death, decision, football, hospice, pain
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On Traffic, Corruption and the Law
My father was a stickler for obeying the law, a trait he inherited from his equally law-abiding mother. When she was in her 90s she railed against the impending law requiring the wearing of seat belts. Yet when the law … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, discomfort, Harley, rudeness, rule of law
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Life in the DRC – An Inspiration
Again, we watched Al-Jazeera over breakfast. This time, there was a documentary on life in Kinshasa. The Democratic Republic of Congo has not been a peaceful country of late; and Kinshasa is infamous—for crime, deteriorating (or non-existent) infrastructure, and poverty. … Continue reading
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Tagged Al-Jazeera, beauty, Central Africa, city, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, joy, poverty, sympony
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