by Jan Bear | May 3, 2005 | Uncategorized
The Scotsman reports that Amarillo, Texas, has become a big tourist destination inspired by a song that’s popular over there, “(Is This The Way To) Amarillo.” Someone needs to tell the Brits that while Amarillo is a scenic place if you like sky, and...
by Jan Bear | Apr 27, 2005 | Uncategorized
Someone prompted me to think of Walter Inglis Anderson this evening. The Mississippi artist, naturalist and Barrier Island pilgrim made a deep impression on me for someone whose book I ran across in a university library about 30 years ago. The book was The Horn Island...
by Jan Bear | Apr 22, 2005 | Uncategorized
I like it.UPDATE: I suppose I should be more specific.It’s a statue of Albert Einstein in Washington, D.C., and what’s striking about it is that it’s so casual.I mentioned earlier John McWhorter’s book on the dearth of formal speech. Well, this...
by Jan Bear | Apr 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
The blue boat of a car came onto the freeway in the morning traffic and slipped in between two trucks. I was in the center lane, and although the left lane was clear, I was not traveling as fast as the cars that had been coming up in that lane all morning. I stayed...
by Jan Bear | Apr 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
Thomas at Endlessly Rocking has characterized the Great Story as a Shakespearean comedy: Think about it. From the moment of the Fall, what do we see? A villain who seems a prince of light; a merciful King who must disguise himself at various times as now a beggar and...