You know, the place where I live has been known as the “pacific northWET” for a reason – it’s supposed to rain here all the time, it’s supposed to be…Continue readingRaining again….
An Ode to Summer Delights I have frissons of existential fear every time I wander past the news headlines these days. There is only one explanation for what is going…Continue readingWhen the world goes mad
The top 10 bookworms’ tales From Hamlet through Helene Hanff to the Very Hungry Caterpillar, novelist Niall Williams browses the best books that manage to make heroes out of readers.…Continue readingThe heroic reader
Greg Ross writes at Futility Closet that Noam Chomsky once offered the expression Colorless green ideas sleep furiously as an example of a sentence that’s perfectly grammatical but is pure…Continue readingColorless green ideas