Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 26, 2009, 11:02 pm
 “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all   Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. These lines from John Keats's poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" might well express ...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 25, 2009, 11:02 am
(November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and kicks off 16 days of activism to end violence against women. This post was written especially for the Bloggers Unite...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 24, 2009, 10:24 am
If I were being criticized, I think I would rather it be for something vulgar, coarse, or tactless than for something inappropriate and unacceptable. I could be inappropr...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 23, 2009, 1:22 pm
Thirty-plus years ago, my, then, husband and I belonged to a "gourmet club," all the rage at the time. Ours involved four or five couples who rotated hosting four-or five-, even six-course dinner...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 21, 2009, 5:22 pm
At My Soiree's Posts - Nov 17 - 20/09 In case you missed anything. Enjoy! Tuesday, November 17/09 - Mirror, Mirror on the Educator's Wall Wednesday, November 18/09 - It's Winter at North...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 20, 2009, 4:21 pm
When I was about eleven, my mother worked on Thursday evenings, and my dad and I had to fend for ourselves (which in those days meant that we ate the dinner mom had prepared before she left!). After ...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 19, 2009, 1:07 pm
With his wonderful character Alfred Doolittle, George Bernard Shaw took a humourous poke at strict, judgemental charities in his play Pygmalion. The complaint against the charities of...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 18, 2009, 1:42 pm
It's the same every year. After the first significant and lasting snowfall, I feel that it is an aberration and will go away soon. How could it possibly be winter? All will melt; the roa...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 17, 2009, 11:05 am
Another Sane Voice Rises in Protest Against the Damaging and Absurd Practices of Progressive Educationalists. It should be a headline in every newspaper in North America. At the risk of boring my r...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 16, 2009, 11:00 am
I had the privilege of having a guest post by Hels this past Saturday. Hels' post is about late 19th -century Jewish women's salons, mostly in Berlin and Paris. The post is fascinating. I...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 14, 2009, 10:44 pm
guest blog by Hels Art and Architecture, mainly I knew a great deal about the turn-of-the-century salon run by Gertrude and Leo Stein. But I had to rely on Bilski et al, Hertz and Wilhelmy-Dollinger ...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 13, 2009, 3:01 pm
 For recipes, food history, ideas, and techniques, Larousse Gastronomique: Encyclopedia of Food, Wine, and Cooking has is all, and then some. First published in France in 1938 by Librairie L...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 12, 2009, 9:34 pm
I once facilitated a marketing course for a group of bankers and was amazed, no, stunned by the lack of analysis and criticism in the 600plus-page textbook. Marketing was value-free and rational,...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 10, 2009, 2:38 pm
In the last two or three years, I have been captivated by displays of dresses in store windows. They are visually interesting and add something pleasing to the streetscape. Victoria St., Kamloops BC ...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 9, 2009, 5:25 pm
What would a soiree be without a great selection of wonderful Single Malt Scotch Whisky. Thank goodness for the existence of The Scotch Whisky Association. It defines and controls just what is and is...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 7, 2009, 2:20 pm
At My Soiree - November 2/09 - November 6/09 Last weeks' posts - enjoy! Whale Songs from the Tower of Babel - November 2/09 Unlearning Bad Pedagogy - November 3/09 Abundant Arils - November 4/09...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 6, 2009, 4:22 pm
Wow! I didn't know that! How many times I have come across whole areas of human endeavour - involving dozens, hundreds, or hundreds of thousands of people -  that I knew almost nothing&...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 5, 2009, 7:32 pm
Food and photography. Two of my favourite things. What's not to love when they are combined? A little research reveals some of the many things to consider when photographing food - that same res...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 4, 2009, 9:42 am
Beauty for the eye and for the body. Pomegranate arils are considered a superfood. They are loaded with nutrients and fibre and are low in calories Pomegranate arils are high in vitamins C and B (ri...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 3, 2009, 11:24 am
There's no way to be diplomatic. Faculties of Education are the soft underbelly of the academe; their ideas and practices are outmoded; the hard sciences have disproven their theories; many of the...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Nov 2, 2009, 1:08 pm
The linguistic version of eugenics is alive and well. With the exception of the aesthetics of certain languages valued by only a few academics, the world would suffer no siginificant loss if all of ...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Oct 31, 2009, 1:43 pm
At My Soiree - Oct 26 - 30/09 Posts from the past week - enjoy! October 26/09 - Gullible's Travels October 27/09 - Soiree-Perfect Pashminas October 28/09 - Fear of Social Theory October 29/09 - ...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Oct 30, 2009, 5:56 pm
In the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, people celebrate the harvest, the annual cycle of the seasons, and dead ancestors. In many cultures, these celebrations have become one holiday, especia...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Oct 29, 2009, 1:30 pm
Popular, trashy romance novels have hackneyed characters, doggedly predictable plots, and no sentences more difficult than what a primary schooler could handle. They are painful to read...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Oct 28, 2009, 10:57 pm
Philip Ball disagrees with David Stubbs about why audiences generally don't "get" atonal experimental music, but do "get" avante-garde visual art. According to Ball, Stubbs' bo...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Oct 27, 2009, 10:26 pm
Pashminas became a hot trend in the 1990s, just as martinis did. Unlike martinis though, pashminas have been around for hundreds of years. The garments get their name from the finest of ca...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Oct 26, 2009, 12:04 pm
Yahoo, shout feminism's critics at the results of the study "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness" by researchers "Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers which purports to sh...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Oct 25, 2009, 1:49 pm
At My Soiree - Oct 19 - 24/09 Just in case you missed one - enjoy! October 19/09 - Round and Round and Round in the Plato Game October 20/09 - That Vital Style October 21/09 - Educators Behaving Bad...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Oct 22, 2009, 5:12 pm
I'm not at all surprised by the popularity of martinis, but 2,920,000 results from a Google search for "martinis" did, indeed, surprise me. In the late 70s and all through the 80s, mart...
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Christine Jackman posted an article on At My Soiree - Oct 21, 2009, 2:31 pm
There is a movement afoot, which, until today, I thought was just a fringe response to the modest advances women have made in recent decades. But, no, it is going mainstream in Toronto (see Kenyo...
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