Category: Columns

I opened Facebook this morning to find a post from my friend Jerry telling me that his childhood home had been destroyed. Carted off like a pile of discarded mattresses. It left the family years ago, and subsequent ownership had not been kind. There was a fire that gutted the third story. The old edifice Read More

I like to arrange things as I goddamn please. Take my bookcase for example. I arrange the books the way I like. I put things in their place. I decide what is to be done. The Dewey decimal system is helpful. But some books defy classification. Do Dr. Jung and his many followers, for example, Read More