Wild Swans and Mao and AWWWWWWW my old website is down July 9, 2015 Claudia and I finished a weighty biography tonight, Wild Swans. We apparently acquired it in February but only began reading it May 29th. Today’s… Continue Reading
When all else fails – write about books May 29, 2015 I’ve had five or six posts in mind each of the last several days. Instead of post them I’ve spent time with Claudia working… Continue Reading
Beyond Patience February 28, 2015 That title is meant to be a joke. Hooray! I’ve got my computer back. Think of it as my Thor’s Hammer. I can almost… Continue Reading
What I read and watch February 13, 2015 I’m not sure why my Buddy sent me to this page on Nora Robert’s recreational reading. She’s an author whose pseudonym I’ve run across… Continue Reading
Tonight’s School Board Homework November 4, 2014 I would grudgingly watch tonight’s election results as the people of the United State’s send more “blame everything on Obama” congressmen to the Nation’s… Continue Reading
Mr. U’s Worm Juice October 29, 2014 Somehow my early morning pre-standing thoughts jumped from William Styron’s suicide to the miracle of putting the first Chester Park Elementary School Carnival together…. Continue Reading
Where to begin? October 29, 2014 Not with that by now ripe and ancient and unedited series………. I know I promised to do it. It was more of a promise… Continue Reading
Telling it like it is October 25, 2014 Maybe this is why I’ve focused on reportage and my personal observations rather than fiction: Readers have become so canny about the way fiction… Continue Reading
The Presidential role call October 8, 2014 I’m about to tread on familiar territory. I surprised myself by finding this old post in a search. It only goes back to last… Continue Reading
The Narrow Road October 7, 2014 I finished reading the Narrow Road to the Deep North to Claudia last night. Like a movie trailer that gives too much away this… Continue Reading
Piano Quintet in A major, B.155 (Op. 81)(once listed as 77) October 5, 2014 It took me quite a while to type up that title. The last notes of the piece are fading away as I type this…. Continue Reading
My trip to Barnes and Noble September 19, 2014 School Board work is putting a dent in my book reading this year. At the moment I’m reading a new novel out loud on… Continue Reading
Literary criticism July 20, 2014 My old buddy quite rightly poked a little hole in my literary interpretation. I observed that the “Zenith City” of Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt described… Continue Reading
Over two years on the New York Times Bestseller List July 8, 2014 I finished reading the Color of Water to Claudia over the weekend. Actually I didn’t finish it. I got to the epilogue and Claudia… Continue Reading
Putting ISD 709 out of my head… May 1, 2014 …yeah, Sure. I said in a recent post that I planned to spend a couple days in Florida not thinking about the District. Well… Continue Reading
Life is too short and I’ve got too many books to read April 3, 2014 Says Allie Sommers a book editor: “…life is too short to read a bad book — especially when there are so many wonderful books… Continue Reading
Zigaboos April 2, 2014 Just a funny word to start a problematic post. Problematic because I wrote it yesterday and thought I’d posted it only to discover it… Continue Reading
Zealots, Ethics, Buying Clubs, Snowdays and… March 12, 2014 …stepping away from the precipice. Since last Tuesday’s closed door school board meeting about negotiations I’ve spent the week stepping back from the precipice…. Continue Reading
“That damned cowboy is President.” March 5, 2014 How could you not like a book with that as one of its Chapter headings. I just downed twenty pages of Goodwin’s Bully Pulpit… Continue Reading
First book of 2014 February 28, 2014 I finished reading Bill Bryson’s book One Summer America 1927 yesterday before Claudia headed out to the Twin Cities and her seminary classes. What… Continue Reading