by svsauthor | Apr 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
The previous blog was about Henry David Thoreau’s concept of ‘living deliberately.’ The topic came up because one of my former graduate students and I just finished a magazine article about Walden. In the two months Sara and I have been collaborating on the...
by svsauthor | Mar 31, 2019 | philosophy, Uncategorized
When I was working on my master’s degree nearly forty years ago (forty years ago!), I took a course titled Walden. Each week students were expected to come to class with a reflection paper about the specific chapters to be discussed that evening. At the beginning of...
by svsauthor | Mar 25, 2019 | philosophy, Uncategorized
My friend Ed loses a little piece of himself each time a macho writer dies. The death of James Crumley was hard on him, and he still is grieving the 2016 death of Jim Harrison. My own feeling about the loss of these guys is more mixed. None of them wrote their best...
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