Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing

 An opera singer, Carla Canales, has an album out, Duende . It is mostly the Canciones españolas antigua s (big surprise!) in her own arrang...

 My daughter gave me a book in the form a waffle, unusually shaped. There was a certain order in which it needed to be eaten in order to get...

 I saw a book presentation today by Menchu Gutiérrez, on zoom. It made me think a bit. There are writers I have been following for many year...

A night of lengthy and intense dreams.   I was teaching and I asked a question. One kid shrugged his shoulders, and I called him out: "...

 I'm about half way through the Svevo novel. The neurotic narrator is a bit insufferable. There is a long chapter on quitting (not quitt...

 I was on a campus visit and having a very pleasant experience. The people seemed very interested in me and all I had to do was be myself. S...

 I was in a bookstore; I picked up a book that seemed to be mine and put it under my arm. Then it wasn't there anymore. I picked it up a...