Spring Bloodroot Moon Still reading through Missing, making notes, trying … Continue reading
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Fall Waning Autumn Moon What literature has influenced you the most? The Bible, various authors The Stranger, Albert Camus Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard Novels of Herman Hesse The Trial, Franz Kafka The Trilogy of Desire and Sister Carrie, Theodore … Continue reading
Fall Waning Autumn Moon Found these questions on one of my frequent reads, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Thought they’d be interesting to answer. Q: What’s the first thing you read in the morning? The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Q: What newspapers … Continue reading
Fall Waxing Autumn Moon Reading. Alexandria, Indiana had a Carnegie library, one of those brick and limestone buildings sprinkled throughout American small towns, so ubiquitous we give them little thought. Like the water tower they’ve always been there. Ours had … Continue reading
Lughnasa Full Harvest Moon Kate’s out in Denver visiting the grandkids while Mark and I hold a visa watch, waiting for some word from the mysterious world of Saudi bureaucracy. Yesterday I took a trip to Duluth to deliver 3 … Continue reading
Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Cicero Not sure where this is headed with gadgets like the Kindle, but Cicero and I have something in common. In fact, this … Continue reading
Beltane New Garlic Moon When I get interested in something, I buy books. Not just one book, but many books. Book buying has always been an important of my life and continues to be. Latin is a for instance. When … Continue reading
Winter Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice More time with Ovid. It went slower today, but I’m down to verse 60, at least with my rough draft translation. Tomorrow Greg and I will go over it, give me a lesson … Continue reading
61 bar steep rise 29.96 2mph NNW dew-point 45 Summer night, nice New Moon (Thunder Moon) I’d forgotten the all consuming nature of writing a novel. It goes to bed with you, advances into your dreams and wakes … Continue reading