Won Over By Reality By Tim Bayer BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—9/1/2014—This video is astonishing: a motorcycle “accident” that should have resulted in death or severe injury winds up looking like a clip from…

“Such acceptance may take years of foolish attempts at defying the gods, but hubristic foolishness is the stuff of great myths and gardeners. I take pride in carrying on millennia of tradition in…

“Each and every day on our planet, 154,957 of us, give or take, die (a number derived from data gleaned between 2012 and 2014 by the CIA, the World Bank, the UN World…

“On the 18th of December, 1635, François Derré, sieur de Gand, Commissary-General of the Hundred Associates (the trading and colonization company of New France), went ‘to the Cabins of the Savages’ to give…

“Sometimes it seems as though I’m a summer slave to the pomodoro—so christened by the Italians because the first tomatoes to hit their shores were as yellow as gold but resembled apples. I…

“It surely must be lonely at the top, and that prospect is one reason I never sought to rise from the professoriate to the administration. The pay was tempting but just the prospect…

Won Over By Reality By Tim Bayer BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—8/18/2014—It doesn’t happen very often but, every once in a while, I get an email (yes, an actual email: that antique genre) that…

“That should get the juices flowing for those of you with any interest in composing rhyming poetry, and in struggling within the constraints of chess, corsets, cross-stitch, and cricket . . . all…

Out of Santorini By Doris Athanassakis Note: This portfolio of  images represents the fifth offering of works by photographer Doris Athanassakis at Weekly Hubris. Athanassakis lives in Imerovigli,  a caldera-side village on the volcanic island of …

“Before reaching the bay side of Popponesset Spit, Clifford would excitedly jump off the boat and into the water before we landed. We would grab a line, pull the boat far up onto…