Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
Posted in Family, Food, Fun, Observations, Odds & Ends, Places, religion on Dec 1st, 2008
Over the weekend my wife and I drove to Blackjack which is near Greenville, NC to attend her father’s family reunion. The family has gotten together the Saturday following Thanksgiving since 1983. As reunions go, this is a low key affair with an old tobacco barn/pack house serving as the meeting hall for as many [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Technology, religion on Nov 13th, 2008
Over the years my reading habits have oscillated between periods of extreme immersion and spells of relative dormancy when my focus tended more toward active participation in a particular interest that had captured my attention than in researching that attraction. Back in the 70’s I recall getting hooked on reading everything written about Edgar [...]
Posted in Observations, Politics, genealogy, religion on Nov 7th, 2008
My private passion over the last year has been genealogy. As one of the millions of Americans who traces his lineage through the ports of New York and Philadelphia, my lack of knowledge regarding my ancestors fueled a curiosity which, remained submerged for most of my life until it sounded in the fall of 2007. [...]
Oh Robert Zimmerman, where art thou? As our leaders attempt to pilot the ship of state through the murky waters of financial turmoil, political unrest, unending war, third world famine-aids epidemics-genocide, and global warming our energies are being sapped and diverted by the constant harangue of political adversaries and their ingenuous appeals to personal faith [...]
Posted in Observations, Philosophy, Politics, religion on Oct 24th, 2008
As the days tick by laden with political ads, reports documenting, forecasting, driving the downward spiral of the world’s economies, and the barest mea culpa is uttered by Alan Greenspan in his leaden, Ayn Rand, non-speak, the pall mall race to E-Day remains significantly a matter of race. In a recent article residents of [...]
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Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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The Zero
A Novel
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