Should they be lucky enough to get there, everyone must address midlife. Rodger’s midlife was enormously complicated by being obliged to care for a dying parent. But most of our midlives are already complicated to begin with. You have spent twenty or twenty-five adult years constructing, maintaining, and polishing an ego, often wrapped up in [...]
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Stroll around the grounds
Posted: October 17, 2010 by finistere in Boil Some Water, Strange Medicine on the Desert, Sunday Literary Supplement, this may sound foolish here, Uncategorized, Work in Progress3
Katie Euphrat’s Mini-Doc Part Two
Posted: September 26, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Boil Some Water, Breakdown on Paradise RoadTags: Katie Euphrat, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Rodger Jacobs, The Great Recession, The New Homeless, writers
The second — and outstanding — installment of Katie Euphrat’s mini-doc on my Las Vegas Sun story, The New Homeless, is now up and running at the online version of the newspaper; I must admit that the first minute or so of the video is very difficult for me to watch.
The Decline of Artistic and Free Thought
Posted: September 14, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Boil Some WaterTags: books, Charles Mysack, Jennifer Medina, Las Vegas Sun, New York Times, The New Homeless, writers, writing
For more than a decade, Charles Mysack, a disbarred attorney from New Jersey, has been selling books from a personal collection of hundreds of used books, from a rickety folding table at the corner of 68th Street and Columbus Ave. in New York City. Mysack “has outlived the giant Barnes and Noble, less than [...]
I have been finding Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret novels to be just the right distraction that I have needed in the last few stressful weeks (Lela has also been reading the books along with me and it’s more than gratifying to have an intelligent companion to discuss the books with after reading). Simenon was reportedly one of [...]
Updates from the World Wide Web …
Posted: September 9, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Boil Some WaterTags: homeless, I Run From Bears, Katie Euphrat, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Newsvine, Rodger Jacobs, The New Homeless, writers
Newsvine, a site that appears to be an online news aggregator, has picked up part one of my story in the Las Vegas Sun (part two is now scheduled to run Sunday, September 26), and garnered the sort of comments that you will not hear within the hollow confines of Southern Nevada: When I was [...]
