Emily Dickinson’s Measurement of Marriage in “I Gave Myself to Him–”

… Myself That I Remake

“I a lover of nature. I have to paint from within .... As I used to tell my students, anything I do must be of a caliber that will live after me. That is really my credo, even now,” said Lois Jones when she was in her 80s. During an artistic career that spanned more than 6 decades and continued until the end of her life, she sought excellence and a place in art history. When, in her early effor...

Here I Am, Despite Myself

As I sit down to write this abbreviated tale of my laboratory's research and my own professional journey, I'm struck by how things have turned out. I often will tell students who visit Fox Chase Cancer Center, where I've been a faculty member for 20 years, that a common Image 1. Glenn Rall.

I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing1

“A a child, they could not keep me from wells,” wrote Seamus Heaney in his version of the Narcissus myth. “I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells / of waterweed, fungus and dank moss.” In countless versions, the ancient myth strikes a universal chord: person sees self, meets death. Ovid told of handsome Narcissus and Echo, the nymph who fell in love when she saw him “chasing frighte...

How do I feel about myself?

I see myself ? Learning by doing

own face, although children do not develop self-recognition before the age of about 18 months. Self-face recognition is clearly a high-level ability and might be an important component of self-awareness1. The question of how the brain responds to the sight of one’s own face has recently been tackled by Kircher and colleagues2. They used computerized morphing procedures to blend a photograph of ...