Aren’t You Happy With Me? by Richard Bausch

By on Feb 25, 2014 in Other Blog Posts, Reviews | 0 comments

Aren't You Happy With Me? is the second story we have read of the incomparable writer, Richard Bausch. The first was Letter To the Lady of the House. Both stories are wonderful and have made me cry.

Burma Memoir, Chapter Two

By on Feb 25, 2014 in Other Blog Posts, Ragtag/the Rest | 5 comments

As I climb into bed, I notice the bedclothes have a slight odor of oranges—the fruity smell of ketoacidosis, the scent of diabetes out of control. Mom has slept here recently. Why?  A fight?  I don’t know and don’t want …

On Reading a Letter from his Father by Nadine Gordimer

By on Feb 19, 2014 in Other Blog Posts, Reviews | 2 comments

This post is a piggyback on Franz Kafka and Rationalization based on reading The Penal Colony posted on February 6, 2014. You can find it under Short Story Reviews. To read Nadine Gordimer’s short story, Letter from his Father go …

What if

By on Feb 7, 2014 in Other Blog Posts, Ragtag/the Rest | 0 comments

What if I stood at the crest of a hill,  A soft hill that descended like a slide, And what if The top of the hill was a plateau And a tree Not big but perfectly shaped With a rounded …

Franz Kafka and Rationalization based on reading The Penal Colony

By on Feb 6, 2014 in Other Blog Posts, Reviews | 0 comments

(Read it at http://www.kafka-online.info/in-the-penal-colony.html) We are observers in life, travelers, and as we travel, we soak in the moral atmosphere we encounter. Kafka wants us to examine ourselves and sets the story with this fairly clear agenda. The Officer is …