Virginia Sapiro
@vsapiro.bsky.social
Retired political scientist in NH & Boston who still scholars. Also making believe I'm a historian, farmer, cook, baker. I do love democracy, knowing stuff, looking at art, listening to music. Current research: history of higher education in the U.S.
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery is a terrific exhibit. Makes me want to revisit the Kröller-Müller, where I haven’t been in decades. I remember it as a beautiful setting.
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery is a terrific exhibit. Makes me want to revisit the Kröller-Müller, where I haven’t been in decades. I remember it as a beautiful setting.
Not the foliage, but the berries. Lloyd Park, Walthamstow.
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Not the foliage, but the berries. Lloyd Park, Walthamstow.
The William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow is worth visiting. And the borough is also very interesting. Nice Sunday market. Had good Caribbean food.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow is worth visiting. And the borough is also very interesting. Nice Sunday market. Had good Caribbean food.
Armistice Day, Walthamstow.
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Armistice Day, Walthamstow.
What could be better than taking cream tea in the understated Oscar Wilde Lounge?
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
What could be better than taking cream tea in the understated Oscar Wilde Lounge?
Why do I think London Transport is trolling someone in the U.S. of A.?
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Why do I think London Transport is trolling someone in the U.S. of A.?
Greetings from London.
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Greetings from London.
Posted by a friend who runs an emergency source for food and clothes: Tips for helping food vulnerable people, especially for Thanksgiving.
October 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Posted by a friend who runs an emergency source for food and clothes: Tips for helping food vulnerable people, especially for Thanksgiving.
So honored to have participated in the 50th anniversary celebration of the UW-Madison Gender & Women's Studies Department. We accomplished so much in the past half century. And it was amazing to see old friends, and think about those who are no longer with us.
October 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
So honored to have participated in the 50th anniversary celebration of the UW-Madison Gender & Women's Studies Department. We accomplished so much in the past half century. And it was amazing to see old friends, and think about those who are no longer with us.
Bringing authoritarianism to its knees is such a cheery thing to do.
October 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Bringing authoritarianism to its knees is such a cheery thing to do.
A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.
Tonight: harvest dinner for a couple of friends. Pumpkin soup (our pumpkins, leeks, garlic; rusted yellow fin tuna; mixed sweet pepper sauté (pictured, our garden), black rice, French apple cake (local apples).
October 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Tonight: harvest dinner for a couple of friends. Pumpkin soup (our pumpkins, leeks, garlic; rusted yellow fin tuna; mixed sweet pepper sauté (pictured, our garden), black rice, French apple cake (local apples).
Dawn this morning.
October 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Dawn this morning.
This government worker is obviously nonessential. He keeps going on vacation (or staying there) and making all his government worker buddies be on vacation, too. I know he TECHNICALLY doesn't work for the Executive branch (altho the reality seems different): but shouldn't he be furloughed or RIFed?
October 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This government worker is obviously nonessential. He keeps going on vacation (or staying there) and making all his government worker buddies be on vacation, too. I know he TECHNICALLY doesn't work for the Executive branch (altho the reality seems different): but shouldn't he be furloughed or RIFed?
Bees love my yellow dahlias in particular at this time of year -- they nestle in and sleep in them. But sometime they look like the aftermath of a very drunken party.
October 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Bees love my yellow dahlias in particular at this time of year -- they nestle in and sleep in them. But sometime they look like the aftermath of a very drunken party.
This is also part of our world.
October 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is also part of our world.
There's something magical about the race between the dahlias and the frost this time of year. How many will finally bloom? Who will burst out with a major display? Who is saying I'll give you tubers, but I don't feel like flowers this year?
October 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
There's something magical about the race between the dahlias and the frost this time of year. How many will finally bloom? Who will burst out with a major display? Who is saying I'll give you tubers, but I don't feel like flowers this year?
She’s given up on watching the news. Can’t take any more.
October 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
She’s given up on watching the news. Can’t take any more.
Every year when I was in college a package arrived from my mother with one of these around this time of year. I would sit down on my bed and before I knew it, I had eaten the whole thing. Her memory is a blessing.
October 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Every year when I was in college a package arrived from my mother with one of these around this time of year. I would sit down on my bed and before I knew it, I had eaten the whole thing. Her memory is a blessing.