Catch me as catch can

Welcome all! If you are here for the first time (via link from Languagehat), look around, have a cup of tea, buy my book. 

And, for regulars and first-timers alike:

I will be reading Yiddish poetry with the estimable Yermiayhu Ahron Taub, this coming Sunday at 7:30pm, at Tifereth Israel in Washington, DC. There will be much English and explication as well. Please come! (If you speak Facebook, you can RSVP there.)

I will also be giving a talk at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics on February 27th, concerning the encouragement of patient autonomy in outpatient and inpatient settings. I believe this is open to the public, though you might have to get a guest pass at the entrance.