Just one item today. I wouldn’t want you to waste time on anything other than whetting your appetite here and then satisfying it by reading the essay this is all about. Continue reading “A story I have not chosen”
Author: readerjohn
I am a retired lawyer and an Orthodox Christian, living in a collapsing civilization, the modern West.
There are things I'll miss when it's gone. There are others I won't. I tend to write about both.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
A history-heavy collection after the holiday.
Monday, September 2, 2013
50th Anniversary
It’s my fiftieth anniversary. No, not that one. And not this one, belatedly, either.
50 years ago today, my father and I loaded a few suitcases full of my clothes and personal effects and headed for West Chicago, Illinois in the family’s 1959 Buick. Continue reading “50th Anniversary”
A Big Poetic Deal
Seamus Heaney, Nobel laureate, poet of remarkable range and colloquial eloquence, is dead. He was 74… NY Times… Irish Times… Boston Globe…Telegraph… New Yorker… Chronicle of Higher Ed… Poetry… Sean Brady…
