Ah, those Valentine Day candy hearts, with those little messages that read like they anticipated text messages decades later. “Luv U.” “U R Mine.” I was surprised to learn that they originated during the Civil War. See “Hub Wafers: A Yankee Delight” at Emerging Civil War.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all over the media – stock market drops, worries about impact on jobs, already beginning to redefine industries. More than a year ago, a former colleague at work asked me if I’d embraced ChatGPT. I surprised her when I shook my head no. “Not for me,” I said. “I think I’d prefer to give up writing altogether.” AI popped all over my inbox this week. Writing coach Ann Kroeker asks whose voice is on your page. Writer Paul Kingsnorth sees it as the latest manifestation of what he calls “the machine,” and tells writers to oppose it. And Samuel D. James takes a look at that latest AI article that went viral.
More Good Reads
America 250
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: The Present Status of the Controversy – Scott Syfert at Journal of the American Revolution.
Just Call It Washington’s Birthday – Jonathan Horn at The Free Press.
Writing and Literature
Twenty-one reactions to Wuthering Heights (from 1847 to 2007) – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.
Shakespeare in the Bardo – Tana Wojczuk at The Baffler.
Life and Culture
The Popular Progressive Podcast Calling Evangelicals ‘Cancer’ – Bonnie Kristian at The Free Press.
Ten Books No One in Education Wants You to Read – Michael Rose at Classical Compass.
How Jamaica’s Bobsled Team Became an Unlikely Global Sensation – Kareem Nittle at History.
Poetry
A Sonnet on the Transfiguration – Malcolm Guite.
“On Stella’s Birth-day,” poem by Jonathan Swift – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Poet Laura: Month of Fevers – Donna Hilbert at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Faith
All Those Undone Days – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.
American Stuff
The Oath I Took – Sarah Harley at Front Porch Republic.
Winters Remembered – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
All Because of Mercy - Casting Crowns
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