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Subway Book Sightings
My morning subway commute takes roughly ten minutes, too brief for me to read anything absorbing. I usually look around at my fellow travelers. In addition to the newspaper (mostly The Daily News…
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“Twenty Years Later”
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in…
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The Bubble in Baseball Cards, the Foil Ball, and the Hair Test [by Matthew Yeager]
II. (This is a continuation of the topic in a previous post.) The bubble in the world of baseball card collecting grew steadily throughout the 1980s; the air came out in the early 1990s.…
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Secret String Beans [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear fellow poets and esteemed bleaders, My mac froke out on Sat night and I have been pretty disconnected since then. It’s always a bad time for such a thing and of course it…
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The Definition of Gardening, by James Tate
Laura Orem's post yesterday reminded me of this poem, a favorite, by James Tate: The Definition of Gardening Jim just loves to garden, yes he does. He likes nothing better than to put on…
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“Weedwhacker” (by Laura Orem)
I've been working in the garden this week – finally, it seems, since it's been raining non-stop here since March. As a consequence of both not working on it and the excessive rain, my…
