I got on the subway at the end of a workday, and sat down. A woman was sitting across from me, scrolling through her phone. She was well-dre...

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally pres...

The Mrs. Pollifax books are delightful so when I found a copy of A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax in a little free library, I took it even though I...

Today is my sister’s birthday. She's pretty cute, eh? More than 8 years ago, she was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. For the pa...

The other day, I was rummaging around on the intertubes, and I landed on a TimesMachine page for a 1952 copy of the New York Times. What rea...

Middlemarch. Yes, I've read it before - I read it in college for English 272, which was a survey class on some 19th century Brit Lit c...

At the end of last year, I learned about a "slow read" of War and Peace . Something about the idea of reading a chapter a day intr...