Growing up working class and biracial in Utah, son of a Mexican American man and Scots-Irish woman, in a white, politically conservative, Mormon community, I was always reminded to “not cause problems.” Especially by my Mexican American father. It made […]
Here’s a wonderful segment that encapsulates in general terms scholar Nina Baym’s prescient critique of male writers’ and literary critics’ anxiety over their loss of control over the definition and boundaries of the American literary canon, especially as the loss […]
I’ve been up for almost two hours this morning. (It’s 6:50 am as I type this.) I guess six hours of sleep was enough rest. Baldo and Chica were in their selected sleeping sites, but anticipating my rise. I got […]
Let’s see… It’s been a while since I’ve done this writing thing. Not that I haven’t had ideas or even motivation. There’s plenty of worthy stuff and crap to comment on, but sometimes life’s river takes one for a ride […]
I’d just finished fly fishing at Diamond Fork for three hours during a gorgeous late morning/early afternoon yesterday and decided to turn on my cell phone video camera to record the walk back to my car:
Maybe I should adopt my father’s “gloom and doom” perspective on life after all, after Baldo failed to perform his part of my bathroom ritual this morning. After brushing my teeth and shaving I did my due diligence by gradually […]
Preface: Okay. I submit to the overwhelming pressure of readers–one in particular–of my blog to re-post my defecatory New Year’s shout-out. I suppose a good, committed writer should have no fears, experience no self-doubt nor give in to personal second […]
Cats, at least my cats, really like boxes. I don’t know if it’s the scent, a certain pliability when they lie in them, or the fact they can chew them up and spit them out. They’re part toy, part comfort […]
I’ve been busy without being real busy. You know, busy doing seemingly endless tasks that don’t seem that important, but that take a lot of time to complete. I recently installed Windows 7, so I’ve gradually been getting it up […]
While driving home from fly-fishing yesterday afternoon, I happened to listen to a PRI: The World story about a recent blog written by the current British ambassador to the United States. It was about his observation of the trend that […]