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The post on this blog that gets the most traf­fic day in and day out is my rumi­na­tion on the last para­graph of Joyce’s The Dead.  It’s an amateur’s impres­sion­is­tic take.  That last para­graph has cap­ti­vated me ever since the first time I read it, and I go back to it as a reminder of […]

I, for one, wel­come my Nean­der­tal ances­try. It may not sound like a lot — between 1 and 4 per­cent. But that’s the equiv­a­lent of one great-great-great grandparent’s DNA con­tri­bu­tion. In the case of the Nean­der­tal con­tri­bu­tion, more than 1500 gen­er­a­tions ago, it’s an endur­ing legacy of an ancient group of peo­ple, spread across many […]