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On Becoming Sheepdogs, a Modern Fable
Posted on June 13, 2020 | 1 CommentEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 AVAILABLE ON PODCAST Anchor.fm Spotify iTunes In the wake of recent events regarding the tragic death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, this letter seems […]
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Are We Killing the Fat Man? The Corona Trolley Dilemma
Posted on April 18, 2020 | 14 CommentsEmail3Facebook4Twitter1Reddit2X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 AVAILABLE ON PODCAST SPOTIFY ITUNES ANCHOR.FM THE TROLLEY PROBLEM The Trolley thought experiment, first put forth by the philosopher Philippa Foot, pits two schools of moral thought […]
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For the Class of 2020 During the Pandemic, a Poem and a Mother’s Wish
Posted on March 23, 2020 | 4 CommentsEmail2Facebook4Twitter0Reddit2X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 AVAILABLE ON PODCAST Spotify Anchor.fm iTunes Today’s letter is for high school seniors, for my son and his classmates, for my friends’ children, for Andrew and for […]
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Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag – A Russian Novel About Your Life
Posted on January 9, 2020 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 What can we learn from the Gulag? About the military, about the body and soul? AVAILABLE IN PODCAST iTunes Spotify Anchor.fm Walking up Hawks Hill […] -
A Remedy Much Desired – Suicide & Three Poems by Max Ehrmann
Posted on June 13, 2018 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Fun, colorful, classic. The first two clash with the third, because when we think of classic, especially in fashion, we think modest, elegant, subdued. Designer Kate Spade made […] -
Things Desired – Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
Posted on April 9, 2018 | 2 CommentsEmail0Facebook4Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 April is National Poetry Month, which makes sense. If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?* And here is spring, eluded and long postponed by wintry flurries […] -
Fruitcake & Friends & Truman Capote
Posted on December 23, 2017 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 WINTER SOLSTICE There are sunnier days ahead! The days are getting longer with the winter solstice just past. Day length on December 22 is two seconds more […] -
On Music & Parental Advice – A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles, the Man Behind the Gentleman
Posted on November 10, 2017 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 The Man Behind the Gentleman My town library invited bestselling author Amor Towles to speak at its annual fundraiser and luncheon. He made a living in […] -
Little Free Library – Charter # 46480 – For the Love of Reading
Posted on September 12, 2017 | 3 CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 The Little Free Library (LFL) is up, in the yard, along the road, by the wooded end of our lot. It is full of books of all kinds, […] -
The Labyrinth, the Mind, the Imagination – Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Posted on August 25, 2017 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Quain was in the habit of arguing that readers were an already extinct species. [Babylon Lottery, Ficciones] Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of […] -
Revisiting a Classic – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted on July 21, 2017 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 I’ve been reading a lot for grad school, a dozen plus books in a short time, some of which I’d read already, like this one. So yep, […]