Monday

A poem that I wasn’t looking for, but I found it as I stepped out for work on Monday morning. Warning: it may be awful. What if Monday never came?And the weekend just continued? What if all our hours and minutes were for family?And we put down our phones? What if we stopped stressing the […]

Book Review: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

My rating: 5 of 5 stars A boy on a boat with a tiger hardly sounds like something that could hold your attention over 401 pages. You will find the Life of Pi filed under Literary works, although Wikipedia claims its a fantasy adventure, which I am sure many readers would contest. But the story […]

Nobel Prizes and Other News

So the word is out that a dude in China, Mo Yan, aged 57 has been selected for the Nobel Prize for literature. His writing is described as a blending of magic realism and social realism. That’s literary terms for weird stuff that is confusing and therefore good, or which us popular fiction types call […]