On the Way Home

 I've often noticed that certain fictional characters assume a prominence never attained by the friends and acquaintances who talk and l...

 Today, in one of the pointless and worthless daydreams that constitute a large part of my inner life, I imagined being forever free from th...

 "When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the...

 I've undertaken every project imaginable. The Iliad composed by me had a structural logic in its organic linking of epodes such as Hom...

 It is the birthday of this amazing young woman. I'm so happy that Ali is now a member of the family. Yes, it's an old chestnut, but...

 I was going back through my camera (which, oddly, has less pictures than I would have thought) in early preparation for November's Veni...

 Over the weekend Gary and Ali got married. It was an extraordinary day, and even now my heart is almost too full to discuss it. At the very...