“The game is afoot, Watson …”

I’m very pleased that the contentious New Homeless series for the Las Vegas Sun is finally complete and out of the way – at least the substantive bulk of it; there has been talk of a fourth and final segment when we are ready to pull up stakes and leave Las Vegas for Los Angeles but I [...]

Stroll around the grounds

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 [...]

October

George Inness, October (1886), Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I sat on the shady side of the backyard, tugging a Camel filter, listening to the powder blue thunderstorm booming on the other side of the mountains, and reading some Greek lyric poetry. Time comes when the simple expertise demanded of lighting and inhaling a [...]

Hello.

This is not Rodger Jacobs. Rodger’s fine and I’ve not put him anywhere.  As far as I know, neither has anyone else. The author of this post is the guy in Rodger’s commentariat you may already know as Joseph. I have stepped in as a guest blogger here while Rodger and Lela deal with words [...]

Finally …

Welcome back to another thrilling episode of “As the Feast Turns.” We finally have a balanced review of the restored edition of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. Stuart Mitchner’s piece for Town Topics, Princeton’s weekly community paper, is thoughtful and without bias but not without his own criticisms of the text. One of the most important [...]