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Remembering young victims of mafia violence

August 24, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber


This poster on the window of a school in Bologna (Via Saragozza, 9), Italy, explains that the stars are the names and ages of young children who have been recently killed in mafia violence.  The quotation (“rivedere le stelle”) is from the last verse of Inferno.

Contributed by Kate McKee (Bowdoin, ’22)

Categories: Odds & Ends, Places
Tagged with: 2021, Bologna, Children, Hell, Inferno, Italy, Mafia, Violence

The 9 Circles of Girls’ Clothing Hell

August 1, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Before your teenage daughter sighs, rolls her eyes and tells you she’ll only wear Hollister, you will be in charge of making clothing choices.

“Treasure this time of sartorial lack-of-autonomy, because it is fleeting.

“As the parent of a girl, one of the first decisions you’ll get to make is ‘Do I care whether people think my newborn infant is a boy or a girl or a genderless loaf of bread?’ Welcome to…The First Circle of Hell: Infant Implements of Discomfort.” […]    –Josette Plank, Scary Mommy, January 2017

Categories: Consumer Goods, Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Children, Circles of Hell, Clothing, Hell, Mothers, Parenting

Winter Grocery Shopping With Toddlers Is The Tenth Circle Of Hell

August 1, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Grocery shopping with toddlers isn’t that much fun to begin with, but throw some -10ºF temperatures into the mix, and you’ve got a recipe for hell on earth. Frigid, snowy weather on grocery day is almost enough to convince me we’ll somehow manage to survive on a few cans of button mushrooms and a jar of olives until the next week.

“Besides trying to corral tiny people who have mastered the art of ‘walking’ but not so much the art of ‘walking without careening into every other person/cart/carefully laid out pyramid of soup cans in the store’, the main problem with winter grocery shopping with small children is that it presents a series of obnoxious choices.” […]    –Aimee Ogden, Mommyish, February 23, 2015

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Written Word
Tagged with: 2015, Children, Circles of Hell, Grocery Shopping, Hell, Parenting, Supermarkets, Tenth Circle, Toddlers

Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars (2019)

May 15, 2019 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Once-More-We-Saw-Stars-2019Once More We Saw Stars (Knopf, 2019) is a memoir by Jayson Greene, about the tragic loss of his 2-year-old daughter Greta and his path through grief to healing.

A review in the Washington Post notes, “The book’s title, from Dante’s Inferno, tips us off that Greta’s bereft parents will, in the poet’s words, ‘get back up to the shining world.’ But Once More We Saw Stars, an outgrowth of a journal Greene began shortly after the accident, is a chronological account, which means there’s unthinkable pain before the arduous ‘path toward healing.’

“Like Virgil, Greene makes for a good guide on this journey to hell and back. He’s a Brooklyn-based journalist and editor who met his wife, Stacy, a cellist by training, at the classical-music nonprofit where they both worked. After Greta’s birth, Stacy switched tracks to become a lactation consultant and nutritionist. Their story is not just of loss, but of their remarkable love, which helps them through this tragedy.” [. . .] — Review by Heller McAlpin in the Washington Post (May 8, 2019)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Autobiography, Children, Grief, Hell, Inferno, Memoirs, Stars

Tenth Circle of Hell: School Supplies

February 25, 2019 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Dante wrote about the nine circles of hell; but I discovered the 10th – school supplies shopping. I admit, I used to enjoy it. After all, the limitless possibilities of a blank sheet of wide-ruled notebook paper are boundless. But, there is a downside to the scavenger hunt to find plastic folders with prongs, binders by the inch, and a pencil bag for the 72 mechanical pencils on the list.” — Lara Patangan, Mercy Matters, August 13, 2014

Read the rest of the article here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2014, Children, Circles of Hell, Parenting, Tenth Circle

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