http://michaelmeckler.com classical antiquity, medieval studies, Latin language and literature, Celtic studies, classical tradition http://michaelmeckler.com/images/rss_image.jpg http://michaelmeckler.com Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:01:00 EST Copyright 2016 Since the cold snap a week ago, I've wanted to make cinnamon rolls. What's kept me until today from doing so is ensuring I have the time to deal with a yeast dough. Michael+Meckler blog food yeast yeast+dough cinnamon+rolls pastry ring+pastry http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2017/01/13_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2017/01/13_a_blog.php Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Although I had been telling folks I was planning to attend this weekend's joint annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies in Toronto, I am, alas, a no-show yet again. Michael+Meckler blog Toronto AIA+SCS SCS AIA annual+meeting Archaeological+Institute+of+America Society+for+Classical+Studies http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2017/01/06_b_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2017/01/06_b_blog.php Fri, 6 Jan 2017 05:01:00 EST reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Although it's been a while since my last "Food on Friday" column, it doesn't mean there hasn't been any food preparation going on at the house in the interim. Michael+Meckler blog food lemon+coconut+bars Betty+Crocker lemon+bars http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2017/01/06_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2017/01/06_a_blog.php Fri, 6 Jan 2017 04:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Last month I wrote in this space that intended to get back to blogging on a regular basis after a busy early fall. Well, that lasted about a week. Michael+Meckler blog http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/12/30_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/12/30_a_blog.php Fri, 30 Dec 2016 05:01:00 EST reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) I always enjoy references to classical antiquity, especially when they occur in the least expected places. Michael+Meckler blog CBS Harvey+Nagler radio http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/11/15_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/11/15_a_blog.php Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:01:00 EST reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) I always enjoy references to classical antiquity, especially when they occur in the least expected places. Michael+Meckler blog Victorias+Secret Wexner Trump Clinton Nero Caligula classical+antiquity http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/11/02_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/11/02_a_blog.php Wed, 2 Nov 2016 10:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Eve Sweetser at the University of California, Berkeley, has sent a message extending the deadline for abstract proposals for the next California Celtic Colloquium. Michael+Meckler blog Celtic+studies Berkeley call+for+papers conference California+Celtic+Colloquium http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/11/01_b_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/11/01_b_blog.php Tue, 1 Nov 2016 12:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Apologies to visitors to MichaelMeckler.com over my lack of blogging during the past few weeks. Amid deadlines for a couple of projects, the Jewish holiday season and our Texts and Contexts conference, I just didn't have the time. Michael+Meckler blog http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/11/01_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/11/01_a_blog.php Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Gennifer Flowers is back in the news after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted that he was considering inviting Flowers to attend tonight's debate between Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Michael+Meckler blog Gennifer+Flowers American+Philological+Association Archaeological+Institute+of+America New+Orleans cabaret http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/26_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/26_a_blog.php Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Last month, a new grocery store opened up in my neighborhood. Now this might not typically be a cause for celebration, but the Giant Eagle Market District Express is not a typical grocery store. Michael+Meckler blog food grocery+store Giant+Eagle Bexley http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/16_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/16_a_blog.php Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) I don't really put a whole lot of stock in the college rankings by U.S. News and World Report, but their top 4 U.S. schools are as follows Michael+Meckler blog academic U+S+News rankings college+rankings http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/13_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/13_a_blog.php Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Our friends at the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies are hosting a conference on the early Irish tradition of placename stories known as Dindsenchas (or, in another spelling convention, Dindshenchas). Michael+Meckler blog conference Irish medieval Dindshenchas Dindsenchas call+for+papers Dublin http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/12_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/12_a_blog.php Mon, 12 Sep 2016 12:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) I've recently become aware of a couple of incidents over the summer involving messy hiring and tenure decisions at various institutions. Michael+Meckler blog academia hiring tenure http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/01_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/09/01_a_blog.php Thu, 01 Sep 2016 13:31:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Charles Osgood yesterday announced he was leaving his duties as host of CBS News Sunday Morning next month after 22 years. Michael+Meckler blog Charles+Osgood CBS CBS+News Sunday+Morning radio WWJ http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/29_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/29_a_blog.php Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) I'm finally...FINALLY...starting to harvest tomatoes from the garden. Michael+Meckler blog Food+on+Friday food tomato tomatoes garden gardening http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/26_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/26_a_blog.php Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:51:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) While envy is as old as human nature -- see, for example, the Tenth Commandment -- it seems to have come to the fore in this political year. Michael+Meckler blog Tenth+Commandment China Mexico trade politics http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/25_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/25_a_blog.php Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Professor Ralph O'Connor at Aberdeen is organizing a petition to protest planned job cuts in Celtic studies at Ulster University. Michael+Meckler blog Ulster+University Northern+Ireland Celtic http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/22_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/22_a_blog.php Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) The Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois next month is hosting an exhibit of late 19th- and early 20th-century reproductions of medieval Irish artifacts, and during the exhibit's run, a symposium will be held on these reproductions and their connection to the Celtic Revival movement. Michael+Meckler blog exhibit Spurlock+Museum Illinois Ireland Celtic Celtic+Revival Irish+art http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/18_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/18_a_blog.php Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Gardens, like life, are often disorganized and overrun with what had been left behind by others. And, as in life, sometimes we find joy in our gardens' unintended remnants. Michael+Meckler blog Food+on+Friday food mint iced+tea garden gardening powdery+mildew http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/12_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/12_a_blog.php Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) In the wake of the British vote to withdraw from the European Union, additional attention is being paid to the economic disparities among the nations using the euro, and the degree to which the common currency is exacerbating those disparities Michael+Meckler blog economy regionalism upstate+New+York Brexit eurozone http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/01_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/08/01_a_blog.php Mon, 1 Aug 2016 09:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Blackberries are almost over in the garden, but now the cucumbers are starting. Michael+Meckler blog Food+on+Friday food cucumber cucumbers Stokes+Seeds garden gardening powdery+mildew http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/29_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/29_a_blog.php Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) At one time, it was not unusual for colleges and universities to assist junior faculty with the purchase of a home, both in smaller communities where housing options were limited, and in larger cities where housing near campus was either unaffordable or undesirable. Michael+Meckler blog junior+faculty houses homes real+estate http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/27_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/27_a_blog.php Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) The deadline for submitting open-session papers, workshops and posters for the 2017 Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting is a week from Sunday, 7 August. Michael+Meckler blog archaeology AIA annual+meeting Toronto classics antiquity call+for+papers http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/26_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/26_a_blog.php Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) I neglected to mention another change that I had made to the recipe for the Cranberry, chocolate chip, polenta cookies that I blogged about on Friday. Michael+Meckler blog Food+on+Friday food cookies Cooks+Corner Columbus+Dispatch cranberries corn+meal parve http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/25_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/25_a_blog.php Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) I'm a huge fan of the weekly "Cooks Corner" feature in my daily newspaper, The Columbus Dispatch. For decades, readers have sent in requests for recipes, and other readers respond. Michael+Meckler blog Food+on+Friday food cookies Cooks+Corner Columbus+Dispatch cranberries corn+meal parve http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/22_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/22_a_blog.php Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Our friends in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies are hosting a symposium on Saturday 17 September 2016 on the danta gra, the courtly love poetry of early modern Ireland and Scotland. Michael+Meckler blog Celtic+studies DIAS Celtic symposium poetry early+modern Ireland Scotland Dublin http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/21_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/21_a_blog.php Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) To mark the publication of The Book of Lost Recipes, a new cookbook containing recipes from restaurants across the country that closed years ago, Columbus Dispatch food editor Lisa Abraham reprinted a recipe for Chicken Pineapple Kahiki from the Kahiki, a legendary Tiki restaurant that was less than two miles from my home growing up. Michael+Meckler blog Food+on+Friday food chicken Hawaiian+chicken pineapple Kahiki Lisa+Abraham Tiki http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/15_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/15_a_blog.php Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Prof. Fred Suppe of Ball State, himself a former Celtic Studies Association of North America president, is again organizing our panels for next year's International Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held 11-14 May 2017 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Michael+Meckler blog Celtic+studies CSANA Celtic call+for+papers Kalamazoo medieval http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/14_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/14_a_blog.php Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) I was saddened yesterday to learn of the death on Monday at age 83 of the esteemed classics scholar Elaine Fantham, who was a teacher of mine three decades ago when she first arrived at Princeton from Toronto. Michael+Meckler blog Elaine+Fantham classics ancient+Rome Vergil Aeneid Princeton Toronto Latin Fantham http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/13_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/13_a_blog.php Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) After two years of paltry harvests from the blackberry bushes in the back garden, it looks like we'll finally have a decent number of berries to pick. Michael+Meckler blog house microliving apartments mortgage rent http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/12_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/12_a_blog.php Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) After two years of paltry harvests from the blackberry bushes in the back garden, it looks like we'll finally have a decent number of berries to pick. Michael+Meckler blog Food+on+Friday food blackberry blackberries garden Illini+Hardy pie http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/08_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/08_a_blog.php Fri, 8 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) After two years of paltry harvests from the blackberry bushes in the back garden, it looks like we'll finally have a decent number of berries to pick. Michael+Meckler blog Food+on+Friday food blackberry blackberries garden http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/01_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/07/01_a_blog.php Fri, 1 Jul 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Our friends at The Ohio State University Press have a page with full information about the new journal they're publishing on behalf of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, the North American Journal of Celtic Studies, or NAJCS. Michael+Meckler blog Ohio+State+University+Press Celtic Celtic+studies journal submissions CSANA http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/29_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/29_a_blog.php Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) Those who know me, or have heard me during the past few years give a lecture on my research on the history of dog breeds, are aware that I have a Basset Hound. Michael+Meckler blog Basset+Hound upholstery upholster furniture dog dogs garage+sale Jo+Ann+Fabrics http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/28_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/28_a_blog.php Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) A friend of mine this week told me she made a strawberry-rhubarb cake, as both are in season right now. And that prompted me to put both strawberries and rhubarb on my shopping list, with the result that I've made a strawberry-rhubarb pie. Michael+Meckler blog Food+on+Friday food strawberry rhubarb pie strawberries strawberry+rhubarb http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/24_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/24_a_blog.php Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) The unconfirmed and highly unlikely story about a niqab-attired woman speaking Welsh has spread across media both social and traditional, and it got me thinking about how much of the news in our highly polarized society is given contrasting narratives that serve to confirm the pre-existing biases of their audiences. Michael+Meckler blog niqab Welsh Wales urban+myth Orlando journalism Lucian http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/22_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/22_a_blog.php Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler) I would be the first to admit that I haven't been blogging much of late. Michael+Meckler blog Twitter http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/21_a_blog.php http://michaelmeckler.com/blog/2016/06/21_a_blog.php Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:01:00 EDT reply @ newscript.com (Michael Meckler)