I May Be Some Time

Books on your nightstand?                     This is not curated.  These are the books that are actually there.                   •  The Ar...

  I really enjoyed reading Rachel Kushner’s newest novel  Creation Lake .  I only read a book I like this much about once or twice a year (I...

The day before the shortest day of the year we drive to town to do errands,   stop at Robert’s Books to drop off a box for store credit, or ...

  We are driving in a medieval hilltop village in Tuscany. The driver stops the car in the middle of the street (the street is only about 12...

  Nine years ago today, the first of November, I was home alone when I heard the knock on the door, after which nothing would ever be the sa...

Early in the visit our son’s little dog Kush suffers a heart attack.     She is thirteen years old and has  previously survived a vicious at...

        My favorite piece of clothing was a track jacket made by the North Face.  I’m not sure why I liked it so much. It was little garish ...