Why Infinite Jest is Addicting

Reading as a form of therapy.

Post-Millenials vs. Infinite Jest

How Wallace's novel can help us live.

Weekly Top Ten (7/29/18): A Mother’s Love

I love to write, and one of the reasons I love nonfiction is that with it I am…

The Option of Hate

It’s an unsettling time to be a liberal, much less a leftist, in America. I fall asleep and wake to the question of what…

11:11

… and nothing to show

it’s another of those days,
promising at first —

What is some advice that actually changed your life?

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just…

Meaning And Doing

“Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.”

Weekly Top Ten (7/13/18) Bath County Mix

It’s been a good week in Bath County, VA, so far. True, my daughter Pari’s dog, Warren…

Weekly Top Ten (7/7/18): We’re Not Gonna Take It edition

In a nut shell

I am a crab. A Cancerian, that is. And I am currently doing what I tend to do from time to time. Get into my shell and just be.