In which I look back and recall the importance of Wind in the Willows on my childhood.
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My Childhood Encounter with Wind in the Willows
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My Friendships Grounded in Literature
In this latest memoir installment, I look at the friendships in my life that revolved around literature.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged C.S. Lewis, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hardy Boys, Herman Hesse, In Search of Lost Time, Jane Austen, Leaps of Faith, Marcel Proust, Northanger Abbey, Paul Hunter, Siddhartha, Silver Chair Comments closed
“Better Living” Emerged from a Midnight Epiphany
In the latest installment of “A Life Lived in Literature,” I recount the origins of “Better Living through Beowulf.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, Benjamin Franklin, blogging, Daniel Defoe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Chaucer, Great Gatsby, Jane Austen, Poor Richard’s Almanack, Pride and Prejudice, Rape of the Lock, Robinson Crusoe, Wife of Bath Comments closed
The Most Dangerous Game: Wild Pigs
An Outdoor Living article on the fierceness of wild boars brings to mind “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” which features a dramatic boar hunt.
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A Mary Oliver Poem for Lent
Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” works as a Lenten poem but departs from medieval notions of what Lent involves.
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A Woman 600 Years Ahead of Her Time
If Chaucer’s created a timeless and transcendent character in the Wife of Bath, it is because he listened–really listened–to women.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Beowulf, Christian misogyny, Defence of Poetry, Feminism, Geoffrey Chaucer, Harold Bloom, Percy Shelley, Wife of Bath, William Shakespeare Comments closed
The Green Knight and Plague Fears
The message of the Green Knight: love nature, love your bodies, and love life. People who don’t are often driven by their fear of life’s transience.
Covid PTSD and the Green Knight
Has Covid-caused PTSD created a MAGA death cult? I turn to “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” written in response to the Black Plague, for perspective.