Fly Fishing![]()
Poetry - “What does it bring to light?/What meaning is there to land?/Have you killed a bit of me? I doubt it.” 9/6/2022
Poetry - “What does it bring to light?/What meaning is there to land?/Have you killed a bit of me? I doubt it.” 9/6/2022Moving Clockwise around Easton County![]()
Fiction - “They’ve always been rivals with a town across the county line, a town of insulation and roofing makers. It’s a working-class rivalry, the authentic kind, one that lasts whatever color the collars become.” 9/5/2022
Fiction - “They’ve always been rivals with a town across the county line, a town of insulation and roofing makers. It’s a working-class rivalry, the authentic kind, one that lasts whatever color the collars become.” 9/5/2022Review: “Hannibal” by Philip Freeman ![]()
Criticism - “Freeman’s book, as the author acknowledges, is written as something of a eulogy to this great man of antiquity, who has captured imaginations for two millennia.” 9/4/2022
Criticism - “Freeman’s book, as the author acknowledges, is written as something of a eulogy to this great man of antiquity, who has captured imaginations for two millennia.” 9/4/2022Silver Lining![]()
Poetry - “The silver lining is/you won’t be catching planes/to drag yourself away” 8/29/2022
Poetry - “The silver lining is/you won’t be catching planes/to drag yourself away” 8/29/2022
Review: Eden Collinsworth’s “What the Ermine Saw”![]()
Criticism - “Almost all the key events of modern Europe were seen through the eyes of this painting, which Collinsworth vividly brings to life in her writing.” 8/8/2022
Criticism - “Almost all the key events of modern Europe were seen through the eyes of this painting, which Collinsworth vividly brings to life in her writing.” 8/8/2022Review: Riley Black’s “The Last Days of the Dinosaurs”![]()
Criticism - “This is a story about the meek inheriting the Earth.” 8/1/2022
Criticism - “This is a story about the meek inheriting the Earth.” 8/1/2022
Review: “Saving Yellowstone” by Megan Kate Nelson![]()
Criticism - “Much like the United States itself, the story of Yellowstone is one of tragedy and hope, defiance and cut-throat ambition, beauty and terror, charity and callousness.” 5/15/2022
Criticism - “Much like the United States itself, the story of Yellowstone is one of tragedy and hope, defiance and cut-throat ambition, beauty and terror, charity and callousness.” 5/15/2022“Father Stu”: A Story of Hardship and Redemption![]()
Criticism - “One of the spiritual overtones present in Father Stu is one important to Christian teaching: the merit of suffering. The Christ-like endurance of suffering is particularly embodied in Long himself.” 5/4/2022
Criticism - “One of the spiritual overtones present in Father Stu is one important to Christian teaching: the merit of suffering. The Christ-like endurance of suffering is particularly embodied in Long himself.” 5/4/2022The River Walk![]()
Poetry - “They bring us here, to a place/Elsewhere, where there is no motion” 4/24/2022
Poetry - “They bring us here, to a place/Elsewhere, where there is no motion” 4/24/2022The Irresistible Passion of Peter Paul Rubens![]()
Criticism - “Rubens is my favorite artist, in part, because his paintings capture the totality of the human condition in its fleshy, pathological, and metaphysical realities.” 4/14/2022
Criticism - “Rubens is my favorite artist, in part, because his paintings capture the totality of the human condition in its fleshy, pathological, and metaphysical realities.” 4/14/2022Review: Bruce Clark’s “Athens: City of Wisdom”![]()
Criticism - “Athens: City of Wisdom is a tour through over 3,000 years of the history of a city that has such imaginative sway and spiritual power over the hearts and minds of so many people around the world today.” 4/8/2022
Criticism - “Athens: City of Wisdom is a tour through over 3,000 years of the history of a city that has such imaginative sway and spiritual power over the hearts and minds of so many people around the world today.” 4/8/2022
