Calling Dr Lydgate

By Mike Schultz in Eliot on

http://classicpenguin.tumblr.com/post/111872903679/for-the-young-doctor-about-to-burn-out Middlemarch makes an unexpected, but apprciated, appearance.…

An Interesting Standard

By Mike Schultz in Aging on

> "What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new." #Thoreau [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Thoreau?src=hash] #Quote [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Quote?src=hash] — Henry David Thoreau (@ThoreauPage) February 20, 2015…

Too Bad There's a Word for This

By Mike Schultz in Words on

> In Japanese 'karoshi' means 'death brought on by overwork or job-related exhaustion'. — The OED (@OED) February 20, 2015 [https://twitter.com/OED/status/568833006347128833]…

Readers Make Their Mark

By Mike Schultz in Marginalia on

> How notes in the margins of books “preserve the voices of the dead—the mighty and the forgotten alike” http://t.co/QtpC5kdbni — NY Review of Books (@nybooks) February 19, 2015 [https://twitter.com/nybooks/status/568519156548501505] I'd never heard of the New York Society Library [https:…

Aging by Coelho

By Mike Schultz in Aging on

> We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage. I found this when I decided to visit the Chipotle site [http://cultivatingthought.com] to see what was up with the Cultivating Thought series. There's a lovely…