by svsauthor | Oct 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
I read mostly fiction, but about once a year I shift to non-fiction for a little while. I am in one of those phases now. I just finished a book about college admissions and am half done with two other non-fiction books. One of them is Michael Pollan’s book about...
by svsauthor | Oct 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
During my recent Boundary Waters trip I discovered a big ding in the bow of my canoe. It was there before I started the trip, but I really don’t know how it got there. I’d never repaired any watercraft before, but now I had no choice. I drove up to Winona, Minnesota...
by svsauthor | Sep 30, 2019 | philosophy, Uncategorized
Riding my bicycle across campus, I saw a former colleague coming out of the student union. Recalling that one of his two daughters had just started her freshmen year in college, I stopped and asked how she was doing. He said, “I just received a photo from her. It was...
by svsauthor | Sep 22, 2019 | philosophy, Uncategorized
I have a quick thought that probably will go nowhere, but I want to get it down in writing. A few blogs ago I wrote about slogging through the novel The Moonstone. At the time, I did not mention that I endured 550 pages of meandering prose before coming across one...
by svsauthor | Sep 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Friday I came out of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. I was ready for the trip to be over. There were no disasters, no risky situations, but the bad weather never relented. It was cold and rainy every day. The sun never came out. One day the wind was so...
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