Author Archives: Theodora Goss

Salem, Massachusetts is one of my favorite towns. If I could live there — if the commute from Boston were not so far — I would. Luckily, I sometimes get to visit, as I did last week, although with seventy … Continue reading →

To be honest, I have not been feeling much joy lately. I’ve been sick for about two weeks. Over the spring break, I went to London and Bath, and I think I picked up something — I came back from … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago, I went to the symphony with our teaching team — four faculty members and seventy-two students. We heard a modern piece, which happened to be a very good modern piece — I’m not always fond of modern … Continue reading →

At the beginning of the semester, I asked my students, all of whom are freshmen, how many of them had been told in high school not to use AI. Some hands went up. I asked how many of them had … Continue reading →

First, you have to get to Mother Night’s country. It’s both through and beyond: through any doorway, but also beyond the place you’re stepping into, so you can’t just step through and end up there. You have to, in a … Continue reading →

What I love about the sky above Budapest is that I can see it. There are strict limits on the height of buildings in Budapest. Traditionally, they could not be build taller than Parliament or Saint Stephen’s Basilica, both of … Continue reading →

Recently, I was reading a book of essays by E.B. White (author of Charlotte’s Web and other children’s books, as well as an excellent essayist). In one essay, he lamented that in his small town in Maine, the rotary phone … Continue reading →