Life at The Perry Farm
As any card-toting member of POEM (Professional Organization of English Majors) knows, Jonathan Swift’s 1729 satire, A Modest Proposal, offers a chillingly simple solution to Irish poverty: Those in need should sell their year-old children as food. Swift joked that he had been assured by a “knowing American” that infants would be “most delicious .... Continue Reading →
If you are reading this blog entry, you are using some technological apparatus—computer, tablet, cell phone—which runs multiple processes at one time. If I click on the little apple icon on my Mac and then on “Force Quit,” for instance, I get a list of all the processes I am running right now—Microsoft Word, Safari,... Continue Reading →
What does it take to be happy? Good example. Realistic expectations. Practice. A willingness to be silly. The ability to declare a moratorium on worry. The good sense to put others ahead of ourselves.
M. H. Perry 