Malcolm knew when to come in and when to leave About fifteen or sixteen years ago when we'd barely fenced in our land and begun construction of the house, a pack of six or seven stray dogs, among them an ingratiating curly-tailed orange mutt we named Malcolm, showed up each morning looking for food. Pretty …
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What books tell you about your life
My joy-inducing book collection. After the painters got done, shortly before Christmas, I expected that putting the books back on the shelves would be a mindless task but then, as I slowed down to dust off each one— and briefly think back why I had bought it and kept it—it became an unexpected exercise in introspection. …
In Praise of Occasional Trash
Kindle tablets allow you to "sample" books from Amazon and peek at the first fifteen or so pages before committing the twelve or fifteen bucks it might cost to download the entire thing. It's a system that invites intellectual pretense.I might run across a book reviewed by the New York Times that sounds like it …
El Rancho Santa Clara 