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I just finished reading a Hemingway book

by jeffrey | Oct 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

If you are reading this blog, I assume that in addition to enjoying my stories, you have at least an interest in cultivating an appreciation for good books. Some of my readers are old book hounds. They could definitely wax rhapsodic much better than I will be able to...

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The Parable of the Lesbian and the Christian Nationalist

The Mystic told this story: Two people went up to the holy grounds to pray, a Christian nationalist and a lesbian. The first stood by himself with his hands held up to the sky and said, “Lord, I thank you that you have made me upright and holy, not like this lesbian....

Start a Book Club

Last month, when I wrote here exhorting everyone everywhere to take up reading again, I meant it. I hope you, if reading has fallen off your radar, if it has been choked and throttled and stomped by social media into a whimpering orphan like Tiny Tim begging for food,...

Take Up Reading Again

You know you ought to. Perhaps you have even told yourself, say, in the evening after someone convinced you to go with them to see Shakespeare in the Park, or some classical concert or ballet—The Nutcracker or The Messiah at Christmastime, and you came home and said,...

More Reflections on Death

Do suicides experience relief from the painful circumstances that led them to such extreme measures? What if they cross over and find it's somehow worse than staying in their physical bodies? What if people who commit suicide actually find themselves in a place of...

This is what it’s like to be an artist

This is what it's like to be an artist. You fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and then you get it right. You have to have a high tolerance for failure, or rather, for continuing after failure. This is some kind of psychotic,...