I am not the handiest person, but do like to putter around, and recently, while thinking about slate roofs, I got an idea for a chessboard made with slate squares. I couldn’t find any stone squares of the right size on the Web, but while wandering around Lowe’s, I stumbled into the tile department and [...]
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How to Make a Stone Chessboard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chess, Lowe's on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Not Polite
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
– Variously said to be an old Chinese proverb, a saying inside a fortune cookie, found in a box of ginger snaps, or done in needlepoint on a pillow.
All the Other Ages
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
– Madeleine L’Engle, quoted in The New York Times in 1985
On Waiting
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I can be reduced to tears by bureaucracy. Time-wasting is my greatest phobia and being in a queue to speak to someone about a mobile phone or something is my idea of hell. There is too much else I could be doing. Very often in those situations I will burst into tears. What makes it [...]
Miss Robinson (1965)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The room is gray.
The day is gray.
She sits that way.
The Bible, you say?
– Written during an upstate New York winter, in the old Hall of Languages at Syracuse University, during Bob Hastings’ English class and a lecture on the Old Testament, as my mind wandered to a classmate.
Not Uncommon
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“There was no loneliness in the woods. I sensed a certain kinship, even with the mosquitoes and ticks; to travel so far and persistently at only the hope of a warm attachment is an act not uncommon to my tribe.”
– John Lane in “Natural Edges,” collected in In Short (1996), edited by Judith Kitchen and [...]
Done
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“No one has the courage to call me at home. It’s never been a rule, but that’s the attitude I give off. When I’m done, I’m done.”
– Renzo Rosso, CEO of the $1.6 billion Diesel jeans empire
To Whom It May Concern
Posted in Literature, Music, Religion, peace on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“You’ve bullied the weak, you’ve robbed the poor;
The starving brother you’ve turned from the door
You’ve laid up gold where the canker rust,
And have given free vent to your beastly lust.”
“You’ve justice scorned, and corruption sown,
And trampled the laws of nature down.
You have drunk, rioted, cheated, plundered, and lied
And mocked at God in your hell-born [...]
Favorite First Lines in Fiction, 9
Posted in Literature, Uncategorized on October 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.”
– Jaws by Peter Benchley
Favored by David Wise
Bed Rest
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“No one in the whole of Sussex is so miserable as I am; or so conscious of an infinite capacity of enjoyment hoarded in me, could I use it. The sun streams (no, never streams; floods rather) down upon all the yellow fields and the long low barns; and what wouldn’t I give to be [...]
