The Boston Diaries
- Kendall Square fieldwork noir T Boylston St Savin Hill Art in Transit coffee art holidays South Station UMass libraries Cambridge Wharf District work river Old Harbor Voltage Boston Common Central Square exhibition Chinatown collective memory Rose Kennedy Greenway Coolidge Corner MBTA trees community art Tremont St EGL books Back Bay MIT New England Roxbury museums Faneuil Hall Emerson North End Hoop Dreams Wenham Newburyport Brookline home Harvard fall Boston Public Library Friendly Toast community Copley Square Bay Village Prudential Mass Ave food Mayoral election South End Downtown Financial District Starbucks Dorchester Pavement Coffee House foliage public art McKenna's trains stations jazz Thanksgiving snow Boston Harbor Portraits of America politics Washington Mihailidis JFK cinema Harvard Square Government Center Newbury St
Tag Archives: home
December readings
The Property by Rutu Modan – Rachel Cooke’s review in The Guardian – James Smart’s review in The Guardian – Glen Weldon’s review for NPR Books
Day 47: The Kennedy Tapes
I’ve read several great books in the last few months/years but I can’t remember the last time I was so gripped by a book that I lost sleep because I couldn’t put it down. It reads like it’s written by … Continue reading
Day 46: Reflective hiatus
So I’m facing the first free couple of days after exactly four months of relentless work and I’m remembering once again how difficult it is to (re)learn to enjoy free time when you’re so used to running around. Furthermore, as … Continue reading
All you need is jazz…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS2BUr83O-8
Front Cover
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” (John F. Kennedy, May 18, 1963)
Posted in Boston Diaries
Tagged home, JFK, Mayoral election, politics, Portraits of America
Leave a comment
Day 5: Shutdown
Rainy Sunday at home, catching up with readings. I finally found the right word to describe the difference of (some) residential communities in the US and the UK and that word is “extrovert”.
Day 3: Savin Hill, UMass
Rainy day, feels like proper autumn. Starting to draft a curriculum framework that merges urban environmental education and media literacy, enabling students to utilise new media so as to engage with local issues.