“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.” Read more

"More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will." Read more

I've been re-reading Gray's famous "Elegy" lately partly because the poet has a similar name to a teammate of mine -- a member of my night crew at the Big Box who has worked with me for the past three years. Read more

In the geography of "Left Behind," the island of Manhattan stretches beyond Connecticut, then folds back in on itself like an Escher staircase. Read more

'There's an office in a building and a person in a chair ..." Read more

That time Henry Miller gave George Orwell a coat and the misleading distinction between "pastoral" and "prophetic." Read more

"The sheer joy and suffering on the faces and in the eyes of the thousands of detainees freed from Assad’s dungeons after 10, 15, 20, 40 years without a breath of fresh air, robbed of dreams, robbed of meaning, in the service of … well, nothing in the end." Read more