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I've collected a number of small well-made boxes, mostly wooden, from my travels over the years. Some of them serve practica...

It's been just over a year since I last posted to this blog. The death of J.D. Salinger still resonates, but it is admittedly old news. ...

A recent Chronicle article questions the flood of research now being published. The authors focus primarily on scientific research in argu...

Photograph by Eamonn McCabe Barbara Kingsolver: "I don't see how any art could fail to be political." A review of Kingsolver...

J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) Tributes/Obituaries Stephen King ~~~ Associated Press ~~~ Verlyn Klinkenborg (N.Y. Times) ~~~ London Times ~~~ Ri...

A week ago a surgeon peeled my lower gums and slid in paper thin grafts gleaned from cadavers, slices of skin stitched in a...