Hagia Sophia from the Bosporus Strait. I had a birthday yesterday. Getting older every year. I got the cutest card from the cutest...

I've been thinking about the similarities between writing and photography lately. About how you can zoom in or out towards your...

A poem by Daniel Halpern, published in The New Yorker.

I planned to write about writing today, but my heart just wasn't in it. I lost one a great post last Saturday, folks. It's going to be...

A few weeks ago, in my post Clutter, I discussed the opening lines of Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler: You are about...

For nearly two years, J.R.R. Tolkien fans awaited the arrival of Amazon Prime's new series, The Rings of Power. The show, which was...

I missed my post last Saturday; it was a rough day. I'm working on this Saturday's post; it's going to be a good day. On good days and...

I went for a ride on Sunday. When I left my house, the sky was bright and gay. When I got to my halfway point — East Tennessee's...