As someone who once scraped together a modest living as a music critic, I found the premise behind this diatribe + more
As someone who once scraped together a modest living as a music critic, I found the premise behind this diatribe + more
I’m normally not a fan of burning books, but I think I’d make an exception for The Associated Press Stylebook + more
By way of apologizing for the lack of posting over the last week or so, I’ve decided that today is + more
In my career as a professional writer, few qualities have been so needlessly celebrated by those around me as consistency. + more
A couple of weeks ago I was visiting the Maryhill Museum of Art—worth the drive for the Rodin collection alone—and + more
I’ve always harbored suspicions that Oregonians were a bit, well…rigorous in their adherence to green orthodoxy. But I had no + more
As a followup to last week’s post about beginning sentences with “and,” let me just add one last point for + more
For those who breathlessly await each new post on the last word, I have some bad news. This Thursday, the + more
Because it’s Friday—the 13th—I bring you a chilling tale of…radioactive boars!
Many, many, many times I’ve been told to not begin sentences with “and.” Or any other conjunction, for that matter. + more
From Thomas Merton comes this, the sort of statement that would make for a fine mantra—if I believed in the + more
I’m in the midst of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts, an account of the author’s walk across Europe + more
With the dog days* of summer upon us, one could do worse than find relief from the heat in the + more
Because it’s not always about words, here’s an amazing collection of color images taken by photographers of the Farm + more