Gifted Typist

Cleaning out bookshelves this past week. The idea is that good books should not be condemned to a life of dust collecting on my bookshelves. Also that bookshelves should be dynamic places, with room made for new books, new authors, new ideas. But what to keep? What to donate? Woolf? G Greene, Nietzsche, Sontag, Joseph [...]

Last few days have been steamers, both hot and humid. That’s a fierce combination for a typist on work deadlines while supposedly on “holiday.” Being at the cottage with the white-sand beach and warm waters so near is like a form of torture on days like this. But if you’re going to have to put [...]

… for the whole damned summaaaaaa! Yeeeehhaaaaw! This circumstance is the result of a lining-up of the planets that has been approx. 20 years in the making. Without getting into the details (no, I haven’t won the lottery), the feeling is akin to that of a mountaineer who has just summited Everest after a 20-year [...]