by Mary | Jun 20, 2012 | DOC, DREAMERS OF THE DAY
Summer in the Russell household. Hot weather. Baseball on the flat-screen. Dachshund sleeping, belly up, on the sofa. Around the 7th inning, I reach for the iPod and check my email. Last night there were five messages… Yes. Uh-huh. Okay… And then, while I...
by Mary | Jun 18, 2012 | Current events
Reviewed for the Cleveland Plain Dealer by Mary Doria Russell, June 17, 2012: Let me begin by saying what this book isn’t. It isn’t an easy beach read and it isn’t about dogs. The evocative title The Hour Between Dog and Wolf refers to the medieval...
by Mary | Jun 2, 2012 | Current events, Writer Tech
Hello. My name is Mary, and I am a recovering anthropologist. It’s been over 20 years since I worried about tenure, but I suppose I will always be an anthropologist. As Ray Bucko, my dearest Jesuit friend, once told me, “Having a Ph.D. is a permanent condition –...