Family

July 31, 2009

“…some good sacred memory…”

Looking back, I wonder: What is hidden over that hill, back over there? Where does it feel right and where can my mother still watch over me? Continue reading

Family, Memoir

Dostoyevsky, Elliot, Ft. Wayne, Memoir, Neighbors, The Brothers Karamazouv

July 8, 2009

On dying

The big questions generate itches only I can contort to reach. Continue reading

Death, Dogs, Family, Life, Memoir, Writers

death, dying, Jim Harrison, Susan Sontag, Tibet

July 6, 2009

Why do we take pictures?

Photographs are not so much possessions as they are spirits, even memory incarnate. Continue reading

Family, Memoir, Photography

Garry Winnogrand, Malraux, Photography, Robert Frank, Susan Sontag, World War Two, Zeno’s paradox

July 2, 2009

House a’fire

I long for verbs, active verbs. Continue reading

Family, Life, Memoir, Thinkers, Travel, Writers, Writing

Bruce Chatwin, Camping, Camus, depression, Frank Kermode, Henry David Thoreau

June 26, 2009

Does it kill cats?

Again, we realize a calm in the turbulent sea of the unsettled. Continue reading

Curiosity, Family, Memoir, The infinity of ideas

Christian Science, curiosity, Faith, Mary Baker Eddy, Relgion

June 24, 2009

I have a done a few things well…

I had a college literature professor, Colin Campbell, who likened writers to spiders. Colin would sit behind his desk, his eyes dancing behind his thick glasses, his face expressive and smiling, while with his fingers he would make itsy-bitsy spider motions, like one does for young children, and declare, “The spider makes its web from Continue reading

Creativity, Family, Life, Memoir, Writers, Writing

Anne Dillard, Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, Writing, Zen

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