Last Year’s Fiction
Books
A Year of Nonfiction.
blog, UncategorizedIt seems like time keeps pushing me faster and faster through life because this year seriously arrived, tipped its hat, and left with a flourish of its coat that it never took off. With that, however, this year was really the year where I read books. Quite a few books actually.
Okay, I read books annually, but they’ve always been casual when I’ve “found the time to read” or when I’ve scrambled together a few minutes between classes. As much as I would love to always be in the sanctuary of green leaves and tall trees reading for long whiles desirable books of my choosing (meaning they weren’t assigned to me), that typically gets planned in advance. And prepared for.
Charlie and A Game of Cricket.
blog, Ramblings, UncategorizedThere is many-a-convo one can hear while touring the Biltmore. I mean, it’s a great place for family and friends but sometimes you’ll overhear certain things from other visitors that stick in your mind just because they’re so prominent: like one older lady that seemed to proclaim to the entire courtyard “Well I haven’t been on my feet this much since nineteen-eighty-five!” Or the small child that lost his mind when news was broken to him that the lions by the front door didn’t come alive at night (a claim I can neither prove nor disprove myself).
The Castle in my Backyard.
blog, Ramblings, TravelWhen I was a little kid, my dad loved to play a band called Saga. He still does. The cover of their album Worlds Apart has a woman on it with bright lips, wearing aviators that reflects an antique map and outer space. Dad didn’t play it too frequently in our presence but when he did, us kids would recognize the opening song instantly, even if we couldn’t recall anything else on the album. He would show us the cover and we would all say in unison “oh yeah, the one with the lady on it!…” or something like that.
To this day, I love that record. I own it on vinyl and it’s one of my most favorite.
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