The Way Home
On the suggestion of Maggie who reads this blog, I recently read The Way Home: Tales from a life without …
Category Archives: Nonfiction
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
The greatest challenge the Anthropocene poses isn’t how the Department of Defense should plan for resource wars, whether we should …
The End of the End of the Earth
I did not mean to be absent all this time. Between the polar vortex and the month turning into the …
Who Do We Choose To Be?
Last year from late September into November I was feeling extremely stressed and anxious. A big part of it was …
The U.S. Government and Literature
I do book reviews for Library Journal on a somewhat regular basis. Sometimes my editor will email me a list …
The Origin of Others
We can probably all agree that Toni Morrison is pretty awesome. Her awesome is turned up to eleven in her …
The Emoji Code
I borrowed The Emoji Code: the Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats by Vyvyan Evans and after 71 pages …
A Hole in the Wind
What a wonderful little book A Hole in the Wind by David Goodrich turned out to be. I found it …
The Chicken Chronicles
A month or so ago Joan emailed me an article about chicken intelligence and in it was a quote by …
Trainwreck
I don’t know why I can’t seem to write a post about Trainwreck by Sady Doyle. I read it over …
