Aside from reporting on the latest round of fresh disasters on the COVID front, our news outlets seem starved for anything other than Kanadoodle’s latest scandal involving the now retired top General. Did he or didn’t he? From a media perspective, first establishing guilt or innocence isn’t relevant. From a political perspective, everyone is already …
Month: April 2021
Life’s Imponderables
Is your life full of imponderable questions, wrestling with the meaning of life and the ‘big questions’ – like whether a red Bordeaux is better than a white Burgundy, whether either are worth the cost or if men will ever remember to lower the toilet seat? Despite growing up in the Cretaceous period, I still …
The Nothing Girl
The Nothing Girl by Jodi Taylor, Accent Press/Headline 2014 - What a wonderful book. There’s Jenny, an orphan taken in by her aunt and uncle, despite her debilitating stammer and her ‘other problem’. Then there’s Thomas, the large golden horse that only Jenny can see or hear. Jenny needs someone to watch out for her, …
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The House in the Cerulean Sea published by Tor books in 2020. Each year my DDD (dearest darling daughter) sends me a book. I look forward to this ritual as it gives me something to read that I would never have found on my own. It’s not that our tastes are a perfect match – …
Pass the Holy Hand Grenade
There’s nothing like a few good massacres to once again bring on a barrage of calls for gun control – not to mention a sputtering rage from gun enthusiasts. Is there a place for weapons in a modern society? Is there some sort of compromise in this endless debate? There are, after all, perfectly normal …
Richard's Left Bank 