by jeffrey | Apr 7, 2024 | Non-fiction, Real Life, Uncategorized
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by jeffrey | Aug 26, 2023 | Non-fiction, Real Life
Hello to the four or five of you who have been reading along with me as I have been serially publishing installments of The Saragossa Bottling Company. I have pushed myself since October of 2022 to have a chapter ready by Sunday at 11 a.m. every week, and have only...
by jeffrey | Sep 8, 2022 | Non-fiction
When I look at my students (BTW, I’m teaching at St Edwards University again this semester), I experience a string of emotions that do not have names, only longish descriptions. Examples: I know you think I’m just a middle-aged frump-meister but I really,...
by jeffrey | Jul 6, 2022 | Non-fiction
I learned that my favorite folk guitarist died last month in his home in Iowa. I first heard Kelly Joe Phelps play on A Prairie Home Companion back in the 90’s. It was so stunning that I scrambled to find out who that was and what was the name of his album. I...
by jeffrey | Jun 17, 2022 | Non-fiction
You may have heard about the Google software engineer who last week told the Washington Post that the Google chatbox named LaMDA had spawned sentience. (A chatbox is simply a computer program designed to interact with humans either by text or verbally. They are used...
by jeffrey | Jun 28, 2021 | Non-fiction
If one goes to the farthest south end of the Sayulita beach where the sand turns to jagged rock, a secret road can be found that leads behind the rocks to Playa de los Muertos, a hidden beach invisible from the rest of the world. On the way, to the side of the road,...
