When I was a teenager I enjoyed watching the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour with my neighbor. I wasn’t a fan of Campbell, but I had a crush on John Hartford, the quiet banjo picker who wrote Campbell’s signature song, Gentle on My Mind. Campbell was quite popular in those days; […]
Guess what? In No Particular Order is now live on Amazon! Here’s the blurb: It’s true that life is linear, but the living of it is all over the map. In this memoir-in-vignettes, novelist Kevin Brennan (Parts Unknown, Yesterday Road) examines his life the way memories occur in the wild: […]
My friend and fellow blogger John Howell likes to commemorate Fridays. For some (insane) reason, I’m hung up on Mondays … beginning of my work week, beginning of the race to the weekend, beginning of my hopes that I’ll end the week with both my mind and body intact (and […]
A classmate in my online course, Literature and Mental Health (FutureLearn) shared this YouTube video with me. I love, love, love Carole King and love, love, love this song. Just have to share it with all my friends.
I know I must be having a great time on my trip. I’m looking forward to telling you all about it when I return. In the meantime, here’s one my favorites. And it’s particularly appropriate for this particular trip. Comments are closed until I return 🙂
Hello, dear Reader, I am now officially on hiatus. I know I will miss you. Will you miss me? Yes, that’s a trick question and a good reason for comments to be closed 🙂
Turn your volume up loud …
At the risk of depressing everyone around me … this song won’t leave my head. It takes me back to my teens when almost all I ever thought about was running away. Problem was that I lived in the country, and running away would likely result in my dying of […]
Five fun facts about George Meredith at Interesting Literature! Interesting Literature One of the things we like to do at Interesting Literature is find authors who aren’t as celebrated as they perhaps should be, and find some reasons why they should be better known, if not more widely read. A perfect […]
Whether you are a visual artist or a visual artist wannabe or just someone who enjoys “filling space in a beautiful way,” journey over to this Silk – Interactive Generative Art (http://weavesilk.com/). Credit goes to Yuri Vishnevsky for Silk and Mat Jarvis for the accompanying music. The art you created […]
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