Well, it's been a fun week. I thought I'd use my last post to respond to some of the comments and thoughts raised by my post of a couple of days ago, in which I asked whether and why folks... Continue reading

As promised, today is my birthday. I'm 30 years old, pretty much twice as old as I was 15 years ago. Birthdays are very strange: it's as if one can really mark the passage of time, can stop and take... Continue reading

I taught a little class last night to a group of undergrads about freelance writing and book reviewing. Which makes me think about the AWP panel I'm leading for the NBCC at next year's conference called "The Practice and Purpose... Continue reading

"Well, shall we/ think or listen? Is there a sound addressed/ not wholly to the ear?" --Williams Carlos Williams, "The Orchestra" The above is my favorite bit of poetry about music. Williams was thinking about classical music in "The Orchestra,"... Continue reading

Today has been a different kind of day, with a good deal less time in it, so I'm posting later, and I'll be brief. More on the issues tomorrow, but today I think I'll just yammer about an album and... Continue reading

Today, if I may, and simply because I may, I'd like to point your attention to my favorite book, which is also my favorite kind of book, if by favorite I mean the book I most often pull off my... Continue reading

Hello all. First let me say it's an honor to be here before you, doing my part to add to the text-horde, helping to create a diversion so someone else can commit the real crime. Or perhaps to fight the... Continue reading