“She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. ‘You should go for younger women,’ she advised me. ‘They can’t always tell.’” —Tana French, In the Woods All good things must… Read More ›
“If you think the story has a sad ending, it’s because it’s not over yet.” ― Emily Henry, Beach Read Let’s step out of the schoolhouse for a moment and talk politics. You may know that Tennessee is in… Read More ›
“you are brought face to face with the great question about the soccer coach: Does he really matter? It turns out that coaches or managers (call them what you like) simply don’t make that much difference.” ― Simon Kuper, Soccernomics:… Read More ›
“Politics is like dice: the better the player, the worse the man.” ― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone The Fourth of July has always been my favorite holiday. Growing up, it marked the unofficial beginning of summer, when city folks would… Read More ›
“What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books.” ― A.S. Byatt Two weeks ago today I was sitting in the bleachers watching my son’s baseball game. The game… Read More ›
“It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.” ― C.J. Sansom, Dissolution Remember that old lyric, “It’s summertime and the… Read More ›
“Nothing is a cliche when you’re living it.” ― Ben Lerner, The Topeka School Sometimes I get the answers to questions before I even publicly ask them. Case in point: high school graduations. Over the last couple of weeks,… Read More ›
“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody’s little display of genius.” ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours Just like that… it’s a… Read More ›
“If someone’s ninety percent awful and ten percent great, everyone says that deep down they’re great. Like they’re an iceberg, but all that greatness is under the water – and invisible. But actually, the truth is, they’re just ninety percent… Read More ›
“This society hasn’t changed one bit. People who don’t fit into the village are expelled: men who don’t hunt, women who don’t give birth to children. For all we talk about modern society and individualism, anyone who doesn’t try to… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 