I voted this week! If you haven’t yet voted, I strongly recommend you do. Voting is important every year, even the midterms, but especially this year with the Iran War, high tariffs, ICE raids and shootings and immigrants’ deaths in custody, grocery and fuel prices running away from us. I would never tell you...
Novel Review London bored Richard Hanney. Though a Scotsman by birth, he grew up in Rhodesia, where he became a mining engineer and prospector. But London was too tame for his taste, so he planned to leave it to seek adventures elsewhere. Then, he met a fellow tenant, Franklin P. Scudder, who told him...
Welcome! I spare you the gory details, but I am coming off a head cold right now. It started last Sunday, but it came on real strong on Monday. I felt better Tuesday, which was fortunate because my brother and I planned to drive to Olympia that day, but during the trip, my eyes...
Novel Review Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep begins: Standing before the kitchen sink and regarding the bright brass faucets that gleamed so far away, each with a bead of water at its nose, slowly swelling, falling, David again become aware that this world had been created without thought of him. And for the next...
Welcome! The most exciting thing this week is my purchase of books. With over 1,000 books in my personal library, I don’t need more books, but I still buy them. I went into Barnes & Noble to pass the time before my movie started. I am just looking, I thought. I will start with...
Years ago, I used to publish a series of short blog posts where I told you what I was doing, what movies I saw, and what you could look forward to. I called them my Coffee Sunday articles, since I published them on—you guessed it—Sundays. Though I don’t remember why I stopped them, I...
