As always, one thing leads to another. This time it's the post from Gert Loveday's Fun With Books that highlights…
One thing leads to another. How do you get from the Daily Poem in the Paris Review to a re-read…
I received a book in the mail this week. Nothing unusual about that even though I do try to buy…
It was the Gert Loveday review of Rancid Pansies (it’s an anagram) that set me off to read James Hamilton-Paterson’s…
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." You may not remember…
One Last week IntrepidEd News published another of my pieces. This one is about how schools are on the front…
I'm launched on a Wittgenstein project. I thought it was about time I knew more about him and his work…
On 14 June 1940, Paris fell to the German Army. The British author Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her diary.…
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re…
I chanced upon this painting of the meeting between Galileo and John Milton and had a flashback to undergraduate days…