Books that changed my life.
What is it about people and lists of books that changed their lives? Do books really change lives? Or did we just happen to be reading them at key moments? I’m sure in some cases books helped people...
View ArticleIn walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits.
America has lost a literary icon, a quiet observer of the sad and sadly spiritual human condition or, if you prefer, a tired writer of small topics whose prose oozed with oversexed maleness and thinly...
View ArticleThe all-new and improved Uneasy Rhetoric
For a variety of reasons, I’ve had to completely rebuild the Uneasy Rhetoric blog. This is just as well, since I’ve been pondering returning to writing on it, but in a more “personal essay” vein....
View ArticleOn rereading Updike.
Some time ago–several years or more–I decided that I would re-read John Updike’s entire oeuvre, in order. I felt that I hadn’t gotten as much out of the novels on first reading as I might reading them...
View ArticleDon’t wake up and smell the decaf.
I drink decaf and Starbucks hates me. Honestly, the whole world seems to hate decaf drinkers. For several years now Starbucks has had a policy that they won’t brew decaf after noon. You can get a...
View ArticleStarbucks’ decaf policy, update.
In my previous post, I bemoaned the fact that Starbucks ceased brewing decaf coffee, and I think now I’ve got it figured out, at least in part. When I was in the SBUX near home (one of ‘em), I noticed...
View ArticleProne to Sentimentality
Tonight my son said something that I found profoundly sad. He has a toy bunny, a little blue rubber contraption with an LED that goes on when you move the toy really fast (or throw it into the ground)....
View ArticleReading deeply, or reading muchly?
Is it better to read deeply or broadly? The Kindle Chronicles podcast a few weeks ago included an interview with Chris Brogan, co-author of The Impact Equation, about his decision to read only three...
View ArticleReintroducing Uneasy Rhetoric
Day 1 of WordPress’ Zero to Hero, 30 Days to a Better Blog asks for an introduction. My name is John, like it says in my list of 100 things. Uneasy Rhetoric is a blog about living in Sacramento,...
View ArticleWanting invention’s stay.
Here it is, a post about not being able to write. Day 3 of WordPress’ blogging improvement project is essentially “write something.” I stopped reading Paul Auster because everything he wrote seemed to...
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