Measuring out my life . . .

  For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T. S. Eliot Like the famous Prufrock, I’m measuring out my life—only not in coffee spoons, but rather in those [...]

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A Robust Soul–Robert Louis Stevenson

  I have loved this author ever since I can remember.  As a child, I loved (and still do!) Robert Louis Stevenson’s A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES.  Who wasn’t raised on TREASURE ISLAND, KIDNAPPED, AND THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE?  I certainly hope most of us were! According to Wikipedia, Stevenson [...]

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