Anecdotal Evidence

Must condolences, words of consolation, be as sweet and gentle as words of endearment? Do people want to be assured that the pain of grief a...

Edwin Arlington Robinson is likely to remain a one-poem poet for most readers, assuming he is read at all. Of course, one poem is more than ...

“There was no pattern to my reading. It was all hand-to-mouth.” When young I was indiscriminate, reading anything I fancied and that cha...

My nephew texted me Monday afternoon to say a student had committed suicide  in my old high school. She shot herself in the cafeteria. As us...

All I ask is that a book be well-written and teach me something – two conditions admittedly rather vague and subjective. This is no critical...

“Perfect weather. And to think that on such a day people are still dying!”   Sometimes I suspect the human imagination is by nature Gothic...

The only speeding ticket I have ever received was issued by a police officer in Bellevue, Wa., about fifteen years ago. He clocked me doing ...