There’s a crunching sound in the kitchen and that means Rikki is eating his breakfast. I’m delighted. My entire being has been willing that little guy to eat. He’s weighing in at around five pounds again and that’s the weight …
There’s a crunching sound in the kitchen and that means Rikki is eating his breakfast. I’m delighted. My entire being has been willing that little guy to eat. He’s weighing in at around five pounds again and that’s the weight …
From the previews, the movie Gloria looked like a Chilean chick flick for older women. What I thought would be the story line – attractive older woman in her fifties meets soul mate late in life, marries and at her …
According to Genesis God created man in His own image. Then He created woman from Adam’s rib so he wouldn’t be lonely. That bothers me and it can’t be right. I need to rid myself of the feeling that being …
The Temple to the Goddess Inanna in Sumeria was the central core of the community for centuries prior to and during the biblical era. The temple owned much of the arable land and herds of …
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.
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 …
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 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 …
(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 …