by Think In The Morning | Jul 25, 2024 | More |
How to get through a political season that’s likely to be mean and nasty? Smile. Even a writer as serious as Borges knows this. Borges’ peculiar sense of humor led him to make remarks that, intended in jest, today would be considered politically incorrect. On...
by Think In The Morning | Aug 25, 2022 | More |
Those who know do not tell,Those who tell do not know. Lao Tzu George Santayana, reading Moby Dick: In spite of much skipping, I have got stuck in the middle. David Markson, This Is Not A Novel We’re hooked on David Markson....
by Think In The Morning | Mar 8, 2021 | More |
Google “cooking as therapy” and you will find 120 million results in half a second. Recently I’ve been reminded how important cooking has been for me over the years. How many of your best memories are related to food? I would imagine more than you realize when you...
by Think In The Morning | Dec 18, 2019 | Mexico |
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...
by Think In The Morning | Oct 16, 2019 | More |
These are random thoughts, silly meaningless phrases, ideas, definitions, quotes, etc. Does it matter where they come from? I cite sources when I can. The soul, whatever that is, seems to need these interstices, room to stretch, degrees of freedom, mental doodles...
