Paper Planes From the Aerie

                                                                     Another year in reading is coming to a close. There were some wonderful...

2023 was a very good year in  reading. After a drop-off the previous year I managed to finish reading thirty books for the first time in a f...

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(photo (c) Steve McCurry) 2016 was a surprisingly productive year for reading books. I'm actually amazed I was able to read 27 b...

(Spring, 2015) 2015 was yet another wonderful year in reading, though I only managed to finish twenty-one books in all. One reason was...

"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help ...

"A typical few hours-- in short-- some stories, some hopefulness, some creative ideas, some anecdotes, some sadness, some old memori...

"Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it." Dashiell Hammett...

"What is the cause of man's inhumanity to man? Desensitization. The numbness of the perpetrator. Whether an activity produces ple...

"That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can tou...