Category Archives: books

The Last of the Scapegoats

Pia remin­ded me that Robert McNa­mara died.
I’m not as well schoo­led on the Viet­nam era as I am on other things, though I know more about it than most peo­ple my age, if only because I find it more inte­res­ting than shop­ping for Jim Choo’s  —  they are out of my price range and my legs

Waiting For A Rainbow

It rai­ned hea­vily ear­lier this eve­ning. The Sun’s bri­lliance, relent­less during the ten minute deluge, would have promp­ted a search for my level 5 sun­glas­ses had they been in my bag. Rushing home from a myriad of tasks I scan­ned the sky only briefly for the anti­ci­pa­ted rain­bow. Of the variety of things human­kind

Women’s Week Continues with Octavia Butler

The week prior to break, a break I’m on as of a few hours ago, caree­ned slightly out of con­trol, con­se­quently I’m later and with less than I had hoped for. I hoped to do a women a day, in retros­pect a lofty thought for the kind of week I was pre­pa­ring for.
Con­ti­nuing on the theme

Notes on Twilight and Other Civic Duties

While your chi­llin with the hot cho­co­late after your five mile run deci­ding if you really want to stand in line for a movie from a series of books gea­red toward ado­les­cent girls, girls whose limi­ted fan­tasy revol­ves around doing it with a vam­pire (the thinly dis­gui­sed bad boy, dif­fe­rent boy, prince char­ming, we all