…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

Memoir

May 21, 2012

Curiosity has ceased. Contemplation has set in.

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

Death, Life, Memoir, The Examined Life

Diane Arbus, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Writing
May 13, 2012

I don’t think I gave her the credit she was due.

It’s mother’s day and I regret not being a better son. Continue reading

Family, Life, Memoir

Life lessons, Mother’s Day, Mothers, regret, Wisdom, Writing
May 7, 2012

We are all escapees. (A repost from 2009)

We cannot be ambivalent about being surrounded. Continue reading

Adventure, Memoir, The Examined Life

Battle of the Bulge, Writing, WWII
May 2, 2012

Bookends

Miscellany end-of-week links on books and reading. Continue reading

Books, Creativity, Literature, Memoir, Writers, Writing

Joan Didion, Moby Dick, Montaigne, Nathaniel Hawthron, Settled in the Wild, Susan Hand Shetterly, The Library of America, The Nervous Breakdown, The Paris Review, Writing
April 30, 2012

Of Parrot Fish.

The honest and current state of things. Continue reading

Adventure, Memoir, Travel, Writing

Adventure, Memoir, Travel, Writing
April 25, 2012

The sign that something is wrong with you.

Long live the adventure! Continue reading

Adventure, Family, Life, Memoir, Travel

Adventure, Seychelles, Thornton Wilder, Travel, Wanderlust, Writing

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