Friday Free-Association – on the gift of words.

“…not to dismiss the power of delivery – it is to point out the power of words …”

Saturday Arts – what ever happened to essays?

I had reason, during the week, to use a famous line of Ralph Waldo Emerson – the one about a foolish consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds. It was from his essay, ‘On Self-Reliance’ – but as I looked it up, it struck me that I hadn’t read Emerson, or Thoreau, or their ilk since high school…

Weekend Arts: Reading and satisfaction ..

I was reading an article on adults who read “Young Adult” fiction, when the author asserted that the reason so many of us like reading books ostensibly written for teens is that they have “satisfying” ends. I’ll get to that in a moment – but first some background. It could be argued that the “Young…

Rear View Microphone podcast 001

Here’s the first episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Enjoy!

What-I-Wonder-Wednesday – How can the act, and art, of reading differ so much?

I could almost hear my wife shaking her head, as my mother described her reading style last weekend – Mum used to devour books in a single sitting but then go back and read them a second time, to pick up the stuff she missed the first time around. That of course is also the way…