I Read a Book (Words 2)
Several years ago, I worked in an office where we collected words. Any time any one of us would find an interesting word, we’d post it on the board. The… Read more »
Category: Books
Finding that Happy Medium
I’m a big fan of the show “American Pickers” on the History Channel. If I ever get a chance to watch, I will. The thing about it is that it… Read more »
Another New Discovery: Jonathan Raban
I’m still muddling my way through Zinsser’s masterpiece, On Writing Well, and it continues to be the wonderful book it has been since the beginning. To it I owe, just… Read more »
On Writing Well
Well, I guess since starting this blog and committing to write daily in order to improve my writing and see if perhaps someday something may come if it, I may… Read more »
It rained all day…
Reports coming in from around the country and we have our typical deaths by landslide. This is what happens in a mountainous country such as Korea. I’m sure there was… Read more »
On getting older. And a good book…
Let me start with a bit of a disclaimer here. I’m about to describe some medical complications in this post, and I want to be perfectly clear that none of… Read more »
It’s About Time…
It still amazes me that I was alive for some pretty interesting events in the 20th century (and even got to see a few of them fairly closely). I believe… Read more »
A Basic Library: Recommendations for Understanding Christianity?
If you didn’t know, I’m a big fan of books. I’m also a big fan of trying to understand things through logic and clear explanation and with a decent economy… Read more »
Words! update…
A quick and very useful add to my previous “Words!” post. This too is from The Wilder Shores of Marx (I finished the book and it was quite good and… Read more »
I have slain the White Whale
I finished Moby Dick recently…and finally. I wanted to see if it was really as good and bad as my brother said. And the answer is “yes.” Resoundingly so. Here… Read more »