I don’t usually rise early on Sunday. Noonish is more like it. Then, not to ride a bike, but to hang around feeling groggy and guzzle coffee. I was up early yesterday morning because I was still up from the night before. My wife was out of town so [...]
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Sarah Crichton Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
New York
On March 23, 1991, The RUF, led by Foday Sankoh and backed by Charles Taylor, crossed from Liberia and attacked villages in the Kailahun District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone government was unable [...]
You remember libraries don’t you?
I don’t think I had been to one in at least two years. I buy my books from the internet and get most of the information I need on a subject from there as well. I have developed an interest in genealogy of late and while the internet is [...]
Now that Summer is here, I finally broke down and started doing the the things I promised to have done in the spring. The main task at hand was to finally, after nine years of procrastination, pour a sidewalk in the front yard. It wasn’t going to be anything fancy, just a straight [...]