If on a winter's night a traveler

I post bi-weekly about writing, editing, teaching, and travel.

Oct 20, 20224 min read

The Plot of Our Lives

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...

Sep 10, 20223 min read

Clutter

Consider the opening lines of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables: Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England...