Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 43
April 18, 2013
Ragamuffins
Brennan Manning was laid to rest yesterday. I was in my early twenties when I read Manning’s The Ragamuffin Gospel. It had been highly praised, and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I don’t recall particularly enjoying it, but I do remember that I was on a plane, perhaps an important detail [...]
April 17, 2013
Clip: A Time to Laugh
The post “A Time to Weep” seems more appropriate this week, after the Boston Marathon explosions, but yesterday my pre-scheduled post “A Time to Laugh” went up on Burnside. It’s just two works of art and a verse, like most of the blog posts in this “A Time to…” series. Sometimes, though, short is effective. [...]
April 15, 2013
The Quotable Greek: The Mind Is Not a Vessel
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” ~ Plutarch Filed under: Greekish Tagged: Greek, Plutarch, The Quotable Greek, wisdom
April 11, 2013
Life Continues to Be Absurd: Saul Bellow, Jack Kerouac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Joseph O’Niell
When I was a junior in high school, my English teacher gave our class a list of topics we could do our research papers on. We had never studied Saul Bellow before, but his name was on the list, and I chose to write about his absurd heroes. As Wikipedia states: In philosophy, “the Absurd” [...]
April 10, 2013
Clip: Paintings in Praise of Poets
Back when I was in undergrad at Scripps, my thesis involved the relationship between poets and painters. Later, at grad school at The New School, I continued to study the way visual and literary artists influenced each other other and collaborated with one another. It’s endlessly fascinating and much more broad than the time periods [...]
April 9, 2013
Tasty Tuesday: A French Road-Trip Supper
Jack Kerouac’s parents were French Canadian, and he described some fantastic meals in The Town and the City. While he was on road trips though, he barely had enough money to buy food sometimes. Saveur magazine created a springtime menu for if you happen to find yourself roadtripping through France … or just dreaming of [...]
April 8, 2013
The Quotable Greek: If You Wish to Be a Writer
“If you wish to be a writer, write.” ~ Epictetus Filed under: Greekish Tagged: Epictetus, Lit Life, The Quotable Greek, writer
April 3, 2013
The Writerly Blog Hop
Huffington Post columnist and Burnside Writers Collective colleague Emily Timbol invited me to join a blog hop organized by writer Kirsten Oliphant of the wonderfully titled blog I Still Hate Pickles. You may remember that I participated in The Next Big Thing Blog Hop last year. I kind of feel like they’re the chain letters [...]
Clip: A Time to Weep
My art post “A Time to Weep” went up on Burnside yesterday. The photo above is of a statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Catholics refer to her as Our Lady of Lourdes because of the apparition Saint Bernadette had of her in Lourdes, France. Jack Kerouac fans may be interested in my Church [...]
April 2, 2013
Happy 68th Birthday to Anne Waldman!
Happy birthday, Anne Waldman! Anne Waldman’s New York – New Jersey upbringing and connection to Greece is the opposite of mine. She was born in A Millville, New Jersey, on April 2, 1945, and grew up on MacDougal Street in New York City, while I was born in New York City and grew up in New [...]
