Monthly Archives: July 2011

This blogging website has a spam catching service. Suspected spam comments are grabbed and deposited in a folder. After a few days, they are dumped.  Over the months, I have on occasion checked the folder and I have been impressed … Continue reading →

It’s been over seventeen years, not fourteen, since Irving died. I don’t know where my head was when I wrote fourteen. Jack

Today, I found a clipping from last month’s (paper) NY Times on my desk. I reread it, and knew immediately why I had cut it out originally:  “When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change … Continue reading →

I met with “Ted” yesterday; told him what I wanted to do; he told me he wanted it too. As a matter of fact, he told me that he was “going to ask me to adopt him.” Oh yeah?  And … Continue reading →

I finished a good book last month by a man older than me who was in prison in Angola (Louisiana) for 44 years.  Angola has had a rep for decades as being among the nation’s worst prisons, and I was … Continue reading →