A Page from Charles Dickens

I was led to write this article by a piece in the Christian Science Monitor. That publication is on my news feeds. The editors like to feature lists of this or that. They are usually amusing. A recent effort was a listing of the top 15 strange comments overheard in the library by librarians. One … Continue reading

Killer Books

Every once in a while I’ll be out typing my yap in a blog site and someone will opine that “Joe America is an intellectual who  . . .” Well, boy howdy, that cracks my head open like ripe jack fruit on the cutting board, because I don’t consider myself to be no “intellectual”. I … Continue reading