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I have been reading Moby Dick again, and when I tell people that it's one of my favorite books, they say that it's too long, or too boring, or too…
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Sometimes, I take a walk through a cemetery near my house. There's nothing morbid about it. In fact, I enjoy cemeteries, and during a trip, I insisted on…
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I won't deny it: I like old guys, the furry, four-legged variety that enjoys lying in a sunny spot, naps for hours, eats well and commandeers their…
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Right now, it's impossible to claim ignorance of all the warnings to prevent contagion of coronavirus. We must wash our hands as often as possible. We…
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Not long ago, while walking back to my office after teaching, I passed in front of a classroom and happened to hear a colleague beginning her own class…
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Cats play a lot. Experts say it's an activity that keeps their hunting instincts alive, but I disagree. In my experience, cat's play is a very serious…
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With weather changes come wardrobe changes. Since I have a few coats for the season, I like wearing them all in a kind of rotation. This leads me to…
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A Guatemalan native, he arrived in the United States in the late eighties on a Fulbright Scholarship to do graduate studies in comparative literature at…