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• BOOK REVIEW: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

  

  The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page The Devil comes to Moscow with his entourage of henchmen - a tram-riding cat,... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

  

  Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This is a work of dystopian fiction set in post-pandemic America. It's the Zombie... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: A Certain Madness

  there's a certain madness running through this world times of tiding gladness lightning bolts are hurled discombobulation in the soul of state riding tides of... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Crazy Wisdom Sonnet

  

  one can't get to that sacred place direct one must pass through a station called CRAZY your mind and that wild line don't intersect and the path between is dim... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Less by Andrew Sean Greer

  

  Less by Andrew Sean Greer My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page The book's eponymous protagonist, Arthur Less, goes on an eight-country world tour in order to... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Half a Hundred Hungers

  

  1.) nose hunger happens when you leave the building in the predawn hours and the scent of bacon or baking bread cinches against the stomach 2.) hunger of... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 10 of My Favorite Books from 2018

  

  10.) Here is Real Magic by Nate Stantiforth: A professional magician, disillusioned because he has lost the sense of wonderment that it's his job to create,... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 of the Coolest Places We Visited in 2018

  

  It's year-in-review time, and I thought I'd do list of the most interesting places we visited this year. We stayed in the US for six weeks for visa renewal,... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Avian Game Theory

  

  a murder of crows harasses a hawk, out to steal the meal that wriggles in its talons. the hawk giving its all to fighting crow will lose its squirming prey. no... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Engines of Desolation

  That stubble, once a forest full of trees, now rides the hills down to the turd brown sea. I'd heard the drumming coming from the banks. An army of axe men... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Biocentrism by Robert Lanza

  

  Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza My rating: 3 of 5 stars Amazon page This... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Agriculture: A Very Short Introduction by Brassley and Soffe

  

  Agriculture: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Brassley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This is another in my favorite series of brief guides to various... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: When I Walk Through That Door, I Am by Jimmy Santiago Baca

  

  When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest by Jimmy Santiago Baca My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This is a narrative poem telling... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Miniature Paintings of Udaipur

  

  This post requires some explanation. First, miniature paintings, as a style of Indian art, aren't necessarily small (though they can be.) Rather, the "miniature... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa

  

  A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This tragic memoir tells the story of a man of... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Poems by Hermann Hesse

  

  Poems by Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page If you're like me, you may not have realized that this German author, known for shor... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Five Farm Haiku

  

  gleaming steel plow blade turns the dirt, but dirt taxes the blade a weed pulled in due time, beats one hundred plucked too late stalk stubble, the haggard... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig

  

  Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This novel tells the story of a mixed-race family and their trials and tribulations in Burma... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: 100 American Poems Ed. by Selden Rodman

  

  100 American Poems by Selden Rodman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page I picked this book up in a used bookshop (the edition is copyrighted 1948) and was... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Autobiography of a Flea by Anonymous (Stanislas De Rhodes)

  

  The Autobiography of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes My rating: 5 of 5 stars "The Autobiography of a Flea" is a historical work of erotica first published in the... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL