Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
Posted in Observations, Odds & Ends, religion on Mar 24th, 2009
Triad Stage’s production of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen was certainly one of the better performances I’ve seen this season. Ghosts was a pleasant departure from the less engaging works that have been produced recently. Perhaps my imagination is playing tricks on me but it seems as if there has been a tendency toward much lighter [...]
Posted in Fun, Observations, Odds & Ends, Philosophy on Mar 22nd, 2009
About once or twice a year, usually following a particularly heavy rainfall, we are visited with willowy veins of ants whose periodic precision invades our bathroom. It may be coincidence that the darkening lines of insects grow in response to the scouting dance of the lead ants but information of some kind is conveyed in [...]
Posted in Observations, Technology on Mar 12th, 2009
Over the last month or so I have received calls from friends and acquaintances who told me that their email just quit working unexpectedly. All of the computer related work I do now is strictly on a volunteer basis and almost exclusively for residents of retirement facilities. While there can be and often are a [...]
Posted in Memorial, Observations on Mar 9th, 2009
Nearly two years have elapsed since the death of my friend Jim McLarty. Time, an indefatigable physician, has assuaged the pain of his untimely passing but it has not filled the emotional lacunae which the caretakers of memories often revisit. Tears evaporate in the desiccating demands of living: some recollections are better forgotten and others [...]
Posted in Observations, Politics on Mar 6th, 2009
With the US and world economy in an increasingly sharper nose dive and the sobering statistic that 70% of our economy is generated by consumer spending, Bruce Springsteen’s stirring blue collar anthem may need revision. While we are reminded continually by experts and pundits that the US is still the unprecedented incubator for ideas, an [...]
Scribbling
Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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The Zero
A Novel
Jess Walter
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