Merry Christmas 2008
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 5:49 AM
8 comments
Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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8 Comments:
Merry Christmas to you. All the best for 2009.
Thanks, Eshuneutics. The same to you, and even more.
Jeffery Hodges
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Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thanks, Hathor. Merry Christmas to you.
Jeffery Hodges
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Thanks, Jeffery! Here in the Bayou, I'm turning last night's turkey into soup, chilling some mead, and enjoying the poem you've just posted. I hope your Christmas has, in its own way, been similarly merry.
Thanks, Jeff. Our Christmas has been fine . . . though without turkey.
I've been reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to the family late in the evening. We did fitt one on Christmas Eve, fitt two on Christmas, and now have two more to go . . . in modern translation, of course.
My daughter seems to be enjoying it the most.
Jeffery Hodges
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And to you, Jeffery. (Late again.)
Thanks, Deogolwulf. I am often belated about greetings myself. Must resolve to make a New Year's resolution...
Jeffery Hodges
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