(688 words) Recently, a friend recommended two books, A Brief History of Time and The Science of Interstellar. Time is ironic, not what it seems. When you’re in the zone, clock-time flies by but the time inside your head, your being, slows to a pleasurable crawl where every detail of […]
Category: essay
Teddy Roosevelt Was A Writer
(779 words) Teddy Roosevelt was a writer first, a soldier second and a politician third. He was, also, a husband and a father. He wrote books throughout law school and, eventually, dropped out to run for political office in New York. That set the formula for the rest of his […]
Our American Dilemma
(992 words) American people, like people everywhere, have a nature. And human nature is such that, sometimes, we place too much value in what we don’t understand and, by not understanding it, invest it with some mysterious and unmerited quality which defies expression. And here, that is politics. Americans are […]
Hemingway’s Reading List
(473 words) This is the reading list Earnest Hemingway recommended to a kid in 1934. The kid told him he wanted to be a writer and asked him what he should, therefore, read. Hemingway would have been 35 at the time and had authored numerous novels including The Sun Also […]
Other 2018 Articles
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Knowing vs Understanding
(661 words) William B. Yeats—Irish poet—said John Stuart Mill—philosopher of democracy—had a good handle on where good prose comes from when he said—I’m paraphrasing—”rhetoric is spoken but poetry is overheard.” I think he means that poetry is what you get when you’re not trying too hard. Have you ever said […]
Fishing For All The Feels
(1,106 words) It used to be that the way you got famous was by catching a big fish. The world was wide and large. The small towns that made the world had newspapers. And those newspapers were farm-teams for the bigger newspapers. Sometimes, something horrible would happen and that was […]
A Close Read of Melville
(1,180 words) I read Chapter 58 of “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville this morning titled “Brit.” It’s only 1000 words, or so, and takes the form of an essay rather than a continuation of the book’s plot. Melville makes comparisons between the natural world and the nature of man, you […]
God Fearing
(1,240 words) How do I remain relevant in a world becoming more algorithmic and automated all the time? Identify, record and share real life with people. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, pay attention to the world and how it affects you and tell a story. Alexa can buy […]
Moby Dick And Shelby Foote
(1,135 words) I finally read Moby Dick start to finish. I started it a decade ago but, obviously, was not ready for it. At 35, I picked it up again and could not have done this any sooner than now, regrettably true as that is. But age is just a number; a point […]