Three weeks into 2018, it’s past time to publish my 2017 Reading List, incomplete and unsatisfactory as it may be. As you’ve surely noticed, I grumble regularly about my poor performance in these posts, frustrated…

January 10th, and although this cold or ‘flu is still slowing me down, it is abating (slept right through last night without coughing myself awake!); I’m going to take advantage of gradually returning health to…

A friend pointed out to me the other day that, with the end of June, we were already halfway through 2016. The observation gave me pause. Pater and I have done so much already in…

Now that I’m no longer teaching, I wonder if my 2016 Reading List will be more detailed. This one, the first half of which was assembled when I was still working for pay, is, as…