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A truly wonderful Christmas season but here’s the one reason I’m happy to move beyond it: Greed. I love the time spent with family, and the time off from work, but the whole emphasis on gifts makes me feel uncomfortable. What it does is make me want more stuff. I don’t usually give in to [...]

More about Roberto Bolaño and The Savage Detectives…I teach a long unit on Modernism and Postmodernism to my English 10 Honors students. Every once in a while one would ask me, “What comes next?” I avoided the question (“Uhh, I guest that’s for your generation to decide.”) but at the end of the unit I [...]

I think I’ve written before about my current love for Roberto Bolaño. I’ve read many of his books, enjoyed most of them, and loved a few of them (Nazi Literature in the Americas, Last Evenings on Earth, and especially By Night in Chile). I remember starting to read The Savage Detectives last year but something [...]

I’ve had to cancel a few trips over the past few years, for various reasons: California–too hard to make plans with friends; Sicily–they changed my flight by twelve hours; Mexico City–I didn’t want to leave for the airport in the middle of Sam’s birthday party. Sometimes it worked out great, like exchanging Sicily for Poland, [...]

Randomness to get me back in the mood…
1. Visited Bass Pro Shops on Saturday. Weird in part because I spent a lot of time there when I lived in Springfield. Since the world headquarters is located there, I purchased much of my early discount camping equipment from the outlet center. (Thanks to everyone who returned [...]