Month: January 2011

Hic et Nunc (Here and Now)

By 70-and-rising on January 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

Wherein the author disses Latin.

Poetry and the top of my head

By 70-and-rising on January 25, 2011 • ( 1 )

I am very picky about poetry. Sentimental, forced rhyme annoys me. Abstruse poetry bores me. I’m too lazy to work hard to extract meaning. My poems of choice must surprise me; at least a line or two should provoke me to think,… Read More ›

Confessions of a book junkie

By 70-and-rising on January 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

I buy books, I read books, I hoard books. I like their smell, their feel, their look and the promise of wisdom locked inside. I like new books, in particular, with hard, matte covers and book jackets with pictures of… Read More ›

January’s Big “D’s”

By 70-and-rising on January 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

It is January – cold, stripped-down, battened-down January. Not a lot to look at outside my window: the trees are brooms. The roofs are crusted with dirty snow and a gaggle of dingy grackles. Grit from sand and salt coats the… Read More ›

You’ve been framed

By 70-and-rising on January 11, 2011 • ( 1 )

I seem to be most creative when I can only devote a small, niggling amount of time to a project or idea. Though my time is consumed with lots of important tasks involving work or family, those small, stolen moments… Read More ›

I wish I were in hot water

By 70-and-rising on January 6, 2011 • ( 0 )

It’s bitterly cold and dark outside. You decide that a hot shower is just the ticket to relax and warm your bones. You run the shower. Cold. You run it some more. Cold. You check the sinks around the house…. Read More ›

Now we are Sixty

Commentary on the Seventh Decade