It is 7:30 AM and I’m sitting in The Hotel St. Louis, Autograph Collection. I don’t know what “Autograph collection” means but assume it is a marketing technique to make a hotel seem fancier than it is. This is my first time in St. Louis as well as this part of the country. Prior to…… Continue reading St. Louis Trip
Month: September 2025
The Jumble Newspaper Puzzle
About a decade or so ago I started reading my hometown newspaper, The Columbus Dispatch, again after years of getting my news from the newer internet sources like Google and other internet sources. The primary reason for the switch was one of nostalgia: I could read the print edition format right on my iPad which…… Continue reading The Jumble Newspaper Puzzle
Lapham’s Quarterly – States of Mind
It is ironic that I read States of Mind while I wasn’t in a very good state of mind. An illness went through the house which was either flu or COVID and one of the symptoms for me was considerable brain fog. I found myself having to reread paragraphs three or four times and with…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly – States of Mind
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail – Bill Bryson
Over the past two years I’ve been enjoying books about life in countryside villages, pre-industrial revolution. I asked ChatGPT about other books regarding the simplicity of nature and that is how I must have stumbled upon this book. I had no intention to read a book about the Appalachian trail. I’m not interested in the…… Continue reading A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail – Bill Bryson
Tales of Old Japan – Lafcadio Hearn
I thought I’d have more notes reading this book like I did when I read Lafcadio Hearn’s “Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation.” The books were different in that this book didn’t get into the culture very much and just related tales, which, inherently teach us about Japanese culture but not to the depths of An…… Continue reading Tales of Old Japan – Lafcadio Hearn
Lapham’s Quarterly – Disaster
This is an edition of Lapham’s Quarterly I read sometime in the last decade. It was after I started highlighting passages in books I was reading but before I started recording those highlights here. I’m finally getting around to adding those highlights. Man is so opinionated that he sees only himself as the object of…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly – Disaster
Lapham’s Quarterly – Arts & Letters
This is an edition of Lapham’s Quarterly I read sometime in the last decade. It was after I started highlighting passages in books I was reading but before I started recording those highlights here. I’m finally getting around to adding those highlights. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly – Arts & Letters