Category: Uncategorized

I am an equal opportunity disliker. I am underwhelmed by the species of which I am a part. Unimpressive, to say it mildly. I keep on learning not to have expectations — of any kind — of friends and family and the larger organisms that populate in masses all the…

It has become apparent to me that the philosophical turn of my mind lends itself to short and hopefully pithy little essays. About three years ago I arrived in Oro Valley, Arizona to set up a home. At that time Mt. Lemmon, a kind of woody Greenwich Village on a…

Another review just came in and what a review, all 13 paragraphs of it. I need to read it carefully for what it may teach me, although my initial impression is that it is lacquered with academic polyurethane : “…the story conjoins a Freudian view with an almost Heiderggerian analysis…

I urge readers to see Jane’s comment to my blog, At 67. She has had her dose of adversity — a cancer survivor; divorced; recent rejection for a  MFA which she was more than qualified for; a crazed family background — so what else is new? However, as I read…