I thought for a detour tonight I would take a walk by the several bookshelves in my living room and flag seven books on them that I should really read, but for whatever reason, have not. Here they are, in no significant order, and since this is a cursory survey, if I looked harder,...
Read more →Yesterday, after my mom’s birthday gathering at my parents’ house, I stuck around and told my dad I needed to go ahead and look at the boxes of books he had there in storage that were owned by my aunt. He had asked several weeks ago if I would take a look at them...
Read more →A week and some ago, I got an email from the UNM Library letting me know that the books I had checked out were due for return. I thought, hey, I think this script deal is a long haul project- might as well see if any of them are available as used books out...
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I was driving home from work last night when I thought of that book. It had been years, perhaps decades since I thought about it, but at one time that book embodied a big chunk of what I wanted in life at the time. When I got it, I was almost a junior in...
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It was about three years ago this month that I somehow ended up sending a Facebook friend request to this guy named Derek on the East Coast. I’d like to say I remember the exact reason for the outreach, but I don’t recall what prompted it. What I do remember is, as a web...
Read more →After a year-and-some of living in this structure people call my house, I went out in the garage tonight and emptied about three boxes of books, bringing them inside for a public life on a new book shelf I threw into the meager furniture mix. I actually went out in the garage and planned...
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