Casa Jonsson

Nils & Araceli’s home on the web, est. 2003

Li’l ol’ provincial me

I’m not very well traveled. The map of countries I’ve visited is misleading; it looks as if I’ve got North America covered and have a decent start on East Asia and Western Europe.

Lenten fare

Here’s a musical offering for the season of Lent:  my rendition of “Dance of the Blessed Spirits” from Gluck’s 1762 opera, Orfeo ed Euridice. It was recorded in an Ash Wednesday service, on the same day Mel Gibson’s Lent-themed movie opened. Kindly try to ignore the fact that I’m about an eighth of a tone […]

Crazy like a renard

Oh yes. Christopher Buckley’s fictional man-about-town, Rick Renard, is back. Unfortunately, we can’t read about his latest misadventures among the rich and infamous until the April issue of The Atlantic comes out. 

Medical school for dummies

I was standing at a downtown traffic light this morning when I noticed that the person standing next to me had a book under her arm. The title: Clinical Pharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple.
It’s comforting to know that publishers are doing their part to make sure that a medical degree is not out of reach for […]