The blog form is now ten years old. How better to celebrate that anniversary, we thought, than with a “Greatest Blog Hits” issue? For this theme, we reversed our usual prohibition against previously b… more →
qarrtsiluniDave Bonta wrote 2 years ago: The blog form is now ten years old. How better to celebrate that anniversary, we thought, than with … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Blaugustine, January 17, 2006 (now included in the Autobiography archive) The old house on the … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From The Middlewesterner, May 14, April 30, and March 19, 2006 If you would be holy, carry what carr … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Under a Bell (no longer online), May 22, 2004 Low sun through window panes. Sharply reflected b … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From I, Asshole, October 1, 2001 Once, I had a friend named Chuck. I met him in my psych class becau … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Creature of the Shade, October 11, 2005 If you allow yourself to fantasize about your ideal cou … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Dick Jones’ Patteran Pages, June 3, 2004 Judi Benson, in her introduction to the poetry o … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From 3rd House Journal, July 25, 2005 Bright spot of shade sanguine against the blue - What does it … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Velveteen Rabbi, April 13, 2005 The call came as I was nursing a mug of tea. The woman on the o … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Marja-Leena Rathje, January 25, 2006 Yesterday I had the urge for some creative play so I gathe … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: A night with the Abbey Lincoln Quintet at the Blue Note, September 4, 2004 From Koranteng’s To … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From this too, May 14, 2006 The Capoeiristas were in Trafalgar Square when we came out of the Nation … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: A story in twelve movements From the vernacular body [no longer online], September 16-18, 2004 I: Ch … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Parmanu, January 30, 2005 The morning after I land in Bangalore, I go for a walk in my neighbou … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: Part 5 of an 11-part series from The Middlewesterner, November 23, 2004 (see the “Focus: West … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Drawing the Motmot, March 2, 2006 Gone for a week and came home to a pile of work and not enoug … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Creek Running North, September 23, 2004 It was the summer of 1986. I had been living in Washing … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From RLC, April 11, 2006 In his twenties he tried to write a novel about old age, just to show he co … more →
qarrtsiluni wrote 2 years ago: From Hoarded Ordinaries, October 4, 2004 Last week I received an updated copy of my car insurance wh … more →