Writing the good read
A few questions and comments: First, if this was a church or synagogue, would you still be opposed to this? Think hard before you answer. Be truthful. If so, you’re being hypocritical. Are you one of those people saying, “Anywhere but there”? Do you say you have nothing against mosques in general? You aren’t alone…
I suppose this is the first time in a long time you have been disappointed in your son, Colton Harris-Moore. His capture in the Bahamas went directly against what you had told him to do: evade authorities and find a place that had no extradition treaty with the United States. Maybe he didn’t know the…
Yesterday I wrote about some older dog books — all published more than 50 years ago. Today, four books published in the last couple of years, all non-fiction, all dealing with how pets fit into our world or their interior lives. Top of the pile — and I mean that literally, not in terms of…
I was shelving the books I wrote about in part I of my latest dog pile book reviews and I came upon a cornered page in the very back of my copy of My Dog Tulip by JR Ackerley. The quote says everything about what is wrong with the way dogs were so often kept…
I read a lot of dog books. Fiction with dogs as characters; books about dog psychology; tomes that cover the history of the relationship between people and dogs. I’ve written here before about some of the great dog books I’ve read. Now, a few months later I find I have another stack of eight books…
If you count the last post I did in April — on April 30 — then really, this is my 32nd straight day blogging as part of the Third Annual Wordcount Blogathon. It’s been hard. Often I’ll have to reach deep to come up with something to blog about, usually in the evening after my…
I don’t often purchase books of short stories. I’m more likely to get a book of essays based on someone’s real life — most recently Michael Chabon’s Manhood for Amateurs, a fine book of essays on fatherhood, that included the piece “A Textbook Father” that was so real and so funny on the subject of…
It’s no secret that politically speaking, I’m a liberal democrat. I keep thinking about what it might have been like if you had become president rather than Barack Obama. I was very torn during the primaries. I wasn’t sure you could win. I wasn’t sure he could lead. I actually felt you’d both be good…
I found this recipe a couple years ago in Cooking Light and have made it regularly ever since. I don’t always make it the same way: I’ve used parsley rather than cilantro; forgotten the cilantro; used wine to deglaze the pan rather than chicken broth; added celery; had no turmeric and used curry powder instead…
Maybe there were more than four things, but these stood out: 1. The design isn’t intelligent if the parts wear out before the productive life of the unit is over. Teeth were not meant for a life of 80 or 90 years, and dentists make a living off this fact. 2. It’s not fun getting…