view from the thirteenth floor

 i've read only a couple of dozen books this year, when forty is more typical --- trumpistan 2.0 has taken its toll on my reading, along...

 this has been a rough year, what with trumpistan and all --- my coochee book got published but the rest of the year sukd --- t omorrow is t...

final cover design --- wheeeee!!!  

page proofs for coochee are in!  wheeeee! 19 august update: review complete and comments returned!!! 

as i watch the continued degradation of our republic by a rogue supreme court, i've done a little reading, some of it oddly reassuring -...

the copyedit phase of the project is done! two hard weeks on my part, significantly improved by the end --- the stupid thing has had a coupl...

great opening lines:   ·          In the beginning, and what not.   ·          . . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone, a leaf, a ...

 

the crazy juggler has been gone for most of three weeks    now, but he's coming back monday, if he doesn't get      stranded in chil...

another year of indiscriminate reading, not quite as prolific as in some years past, mainly because of the time spent working on the woodruf...

so, smiley left today for another stupid cruise, which they have styled a cruise to antarctica, which is on the big guy's bucket list, s...

one of the only bits of monumental sculpture salvaged when st paul's cathedral in london burnt down in 1666 was this of john donne, whic...

today marks the eleventh anniversay of iris's death, in her own bed in the wee hours of the morning --- and tomorrow is dead john's ...

i have so neglected this stupid blog --- not that there is anything wrong with that --- i type and post pictures when i feel like it, and wh...