by Think In The Morning | May 6, 2020 | Words |
Previously Discussed Literature On The 1918 PandemicKatherine Anne Porter: Pale Horse, Pale RiderWilliam Maxwell: They Came Like Swallows This grey wall, unshaken, mighty, was the end of the long preparation, as it was the end of the sea. It was the reason for...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 30, 2020 | Words |
To deal with pandemics, read about them. That’s my advice.The 1918 pandemic did not inspire much literature of its own. World War I sucked up all the paper and ink with such greats as Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet On The Western Front (1928) and Hemingway’s...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 27, 2020 | Words |
“Cruelty to animals will get you punished, but cruelty to humans will get you promoted.” (as one of Brit’s friends said to her at the immigrant detention center where she worked in Ali Smith’s SPRING) In a previous blog I explored Ali Smith’s Autumn, the...
by Think In The Morning | Jan 14, 2020 | Words |
Origami Placeby Hayden Jones In the origami place,origami pelicans soar through the sky.In the origami place,stars shine bright.In the origami place,origami boats sail through the ocean.In the origami place,you can stop and smell the origami tulips.In the origami...
by Think In The Morning | Dec 23, 2019 | Mexico, Words |
The cold, the winter, the holidays—lazy. What better time to honor others in the blogosphere than when you are too lazy to write your own blog. This blog was inspired by an Instagram post from my friends at Mezcalistas, Baking with Mezcal. Today’s experiment in...
by Think In The Morning | Dec 18, 2019 | Mexico, Words |
In the acknowledgements to my novel Behind the Locked Door I write: This book had a long gestation period. The idea first occurred to me in 1972, and I began to research in earnest in December of 2010. I first put pen to paper in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, in January...
