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I’ve written on this blog before about this need to read and collect books as if trophies. Specifically, on many blogs there are “challenges,” which means, I gather, to read as many books as possible over a week-end, or a year. The challenges can be focused: mysteries, or an author, thematic tasks. One blogger lists the […]

It sounds biblical, but from out of the whirlpool something speaks to me. Around me stories are being lived. David Herrle has a mother-in-law in the hospital and his wife is distraught…Ben Rapoport in upstate Canaan, New York is aging with his Parkinson’s…My son, Jordan, just left Chicago for New York with his present squeeze for […]

Struggling with time is struggling with meaning, one and the same thing, in my mind. What is to be done with time as it courses and meanders through our lives? The days go by as we think we use them. I don’t believe there is a human being on this planet who has a real […]

i have been informed that comments are not being registered. If you want to reach me for a book review or other matters, email me at ifreese@hotmail.com. I am working on having it mended. Parenthetically, to other WordPress bloggers, I don’t know about you but the so-called “help” provided by WordPress is ridiculously arcane and […]