Merry Wanderer of the Night [08/21/10] 

  • Weekly Geeks 2010-29: Reading from the Decades

    *cartoon courtesy of ToonPoolThis past week I celebrated my 50th birthday - a half century of living - and it made me think about how books have changed since 1960 when I was born. I recently read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey which was published in 1962. It is a wonderful literary classic which is still relevant to…

  • Awesome Essays: Solipsism

    Awesome essays has returned with a truly awesome essay called Solipsism. I first read this essay in The Best American Essays 2008 edited by Adam Gopnik and it was just a struck of luck that a week earlier I had listened to an episode of Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt that had Ander Monson (author of Solipsism) on it. I was intr…

  1. Update of second full day here . . .
  2. Update of first full day here . . .
  3. Wow, what a week can do . . .
  4. Left side clearer!
  5. Appointment results today . . .
  6. Tasty Tuesday-A Healthier Way to Do Pancakes
  7. Back in the Not Me Saddle
  8. I Feed My Children Nothing But the Finest...All of the Time
  9. Answering Questions and Filling in the Blanks...Good Times
  10. This One Goes Out to the One I Love