I received a letter from my local library, telling me that I owed them 28 dollars and 88 cents.
In my ‘year of books’, perhaps the work that I enjoyed more than any other for the mere pleasure of it all was ‘Extra Lives’ by Tom Bissell…
As I said a couple of years ago when I began writing here, the initial purpose (and very…
This is a progress report, of sorts — and to me, it’s a good one.
As I’ve grown older, I’ve learned to appreciate my birthday. I see it less as an opportunity to celebrate, and more as a symbolic point in time, a marker in my life for what has passed and what’s to come.