February 28, 2014 JMRL Blog “Izz, I’ve learned the hard way that to have any kind of a future you’ve got to give up hope of ever changing your past.”
January 17, 2014 JMRL Blog “The world of sensible seasons had come undone.” — Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
November 24, 2013 JMRL Blog “There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour … The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual.”
October 21, 2013 JMRL Blog “….the architect and planter, struggling against the moralist” : Discussing “Master of the Mountain”
July 10, 2013 JMRL Blog “…when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
May 21, 2013 JMRL Blog “He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach — that it makes no sense.”
April 30, 2013 JMRL Blog “Home, whether it be structure or familiar ground, is, finally, the identity that does not fade.”