Monthly Archives: May, 2025
Two Japanese, Please
An interesting activity, sometimes, is to alternate reading between two short story collections by different authors who are similar but not the same. A good activity for a holiday afternoon when the weather outside is too dreary for other pursuits, and most places are closed down anyway. A day like today, in other words. Today …
Haruki Murakami’s Got His Hooves in Me Again!
I’ve been on a Japanese kick again, reading-wise, triggered by a new Haruki Murakami novel The City and Its Uncertain Walls. And after finishing that typically enigmatic book, I realized that there is a considerable backlog of Murakami (he’s written some sixty books) as yet unread by me. So in I dive! Serendipitously, the next …
Butterflies: Not Free, Evidently
OK, let me get this out of the way right up front–I’m not really an opera guy. I do appreciate classical music and have been supporting it live for many years, but I guess one of the main attractions for me has been the absence of singing. I just get too distracted when somebody walks …
Sunday Rando Springs Occurrence
On a sunny Springs morning when the leaves have finally budded out and every tree is swaying in the mountain breeze to say “How t’cha do?”, I can think of little more satisfying than to stroll downtown for a cuppa my favorite morning brew at my favorite morning brewjoint. So that’s what I found myself …
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