Lacunae Musing

  I borrow from Dickens to express a foreboding, in particular one that will culminate with this year’s Presidential election.   The D...

There are readers who devour mostly fiction and there are those who mostly read non-fiction.  Although I enjoy the occasional non-fiction ...

It is rare to read literature outside of my "comfort zone" of Contemporary American, and rarer still to read novels approaching 1,...

Although we lived in the northeast all of our adult lives before moving to Florida, and still spend the summers there on our boat, we had n...

How many times does one have to see a version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to say “enough?” Never, I say, as every generation can find it’...