All Posts

• At long last, a library card
• Steepest descent
• The Recapture
• Red Earth and Pouring Rain
• A ditty for Mr. Dodgson
• Love on a sparkling wing
• Flotsam from ZMM
• Stegosaurus Ludicrous
• Not in Zen
• Happy Birthday, Carl: A personal tribute
• The cemetery in autumn
• In a Contrarian Wind
• A Truly Fascinating History
• Clothes maketh the man … obscure.
• May there always be frogs …
• Words fail
• Out of Eden
• Avian Updates OR Yet another birding post
• Robins and Tombstones
• Pansebjorne!
• Dormant Pond
• Keen on Birding
• I(x) and U(x)
• The Morning Dollar
• Growing up in the Universe
• Owling
• Mr. Gobbles
• Ecstatic Road to Nowhere
• Changes
• A lull in Mirkwood, 2nd edition
• Totality
• Wood Elves
• The Home and the World
• Ten favorite short stories
• Mayfly
• A brutal, forgotten history
• Books about good people
• “Like a Dog” – Some thoughts on Disgrace
• Serendipity
• Happy Birthday, Kate
• Why do children resemble their parents? (Except those that resemble the milkman)
• Earth Day
• Virginia Tech shootings
• Heron Haven
• Exhaustion
• Readers on a plane
• Holy Space
• Concerning Hobbits
• Boatman
• Remembering Laughter
• Like peeling an onion
• Mired in ideology, Tehanu captivates but does not satisfy
• The end of biodiversity as we know it
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• Birding with Simon Barnes
• Five (bookish) things you don’t know about me
• Genius proposes, SI disposes
• Foes on multiple levels
• On Burnout
• Appreciating degree in a polarized world
• Vasilisa: Early Book Meme
• Everyone has a Nancy Drew story
• Wired Mag caricatures New Atheism
• The Bed of Delgadina
• Blogless in Hangzhou
• Free (and dusty) Asimov
• Westcotts and Finches
• The horrors of Mr. Kurtz
• An unwelcome opportunity to read
• The travails of Gaia
• Thinking about thinking
• A lull in Mirkwood
• 51 y, 9 m, 4 d
• A writer’s paean to Federer
• When a character introspects
• The World’s Great Nomads
• On a speck of star-stuff
• The Pearl of Allington
• On Reading in Bed
• One of every kind
• The first “adult” book
• A Readability Test
• Days of insomnia
• Three graces
• The color of forbidden passion
• Fun with Wimbledon reporting
• A Counting Exercise
• Agastya Sen goes to America
• Not just another Kidman biography, I hope
• The world’s only book, digitized and shorn of charm
• Muir essay on Yosemite
• With Binoculars and Persistence
• Tempted and slightly puzzled by Mishra
• Savagery in One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Vampire nostalgia
• Updike on the Kaavya Viswanathan case
• Beyond the Dragons’ Run
• Oversimplifying “Women and Islam”
• The poem and the theorem
• Is The Da Vinci Code really such a bad film?
• The Jane Austen of South Alabama
• The Pearl
• All Gaul is occupied by the Romans. All?
• A People Betrayed
• Who will write the next Great American Novel?
• Holmes in Sepia
• And Boo Radley had come out…
• Precious Ramotswe revisited?
• Machiavellian World
• The Eaten One
• Wisdom of Earthsea
• The Problem With Harry
• (un)Glorious summers for these sons of York.
• Gould Too Cute on Science v. God
• Two by Russo
• McCall Smith on his lady detectives
• Updike short story
• Darwin’s Mystery of Mysteries
• Coma Induced by a Problematic Colon ?
• Trouble in the Benedictine Order