Widower's Tango

I used to be leery of I love yous. Having heard the endearment used too many times, backed up with little or no feeling, I used to avoid the...

We always knew that Alfred Hitchcock was a pervert. It was simply a difference of degree, not of kind. So many of his movies are about per...

Four years ago on this blog, I collected a number of quotes from the essays of George Orwell in a post I called George Orwell's Ready Re...

In great poetry, one can always look for resemblances, echoed themes. Ideas central to life are central to poetry: where can one find meanin...

Among the things my brother packed for me in my Christmas package last year was a Charlie Brown snowglobe. It wasn't as grand as the on...

My brother bought me The Stories of John Cheever for Christmas. I have another copy of the book, dog-eared, but I left it in Alaska with ...

And lonely as it is, that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less - A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expressio...