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Hat in hand

I meant to.  Really I did.  It’s just … well,  you know:

new baby sleep loss
the desire to get out and enjoy a classic New England autumn
another epic Cubs collapse (and really, this one hurt like nothing since ‘84 – and I was an impressionable lad of 6 then.  What was most distressing was the TV [...]

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I can only blame New Parent Syndrome for the fact that it took me this long to hear the news of the death of my favorite contemporary author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide last week at the age of 46 (NY Times obit here, an, um, tribute here).
As a librarian, not a lit professor, [...]

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No, the Little Guy hasn’t been out yet, but with my mother in law in town helping out I’ve had both the excuse to hit a destination other than the grocery store or library storytime and also get in some blogging.  So, it feels like we’re finally starting to rejoin the outside world after a [...]

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The Author’s Preface

You may believe me, gentle reader, that I wish this blog, as my own brainchild, was the most beautiful and ingenious that can be imagined.  But it’s a blog.  I’ve had a taste of the blogging life over the past year in a pinch-hitting role over at ACRLog, and with more gentle prodding from friends [...]

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