Like so many others of my generation, I read Catcher in the Rye as a teenager. I don't remember being deeply affected by the novel, but then again I was a somewhat self-absorbed and relatively unschooled youngster. I liked Studs Lonigan better, for some reason.
But sometimes it simply doesn't work. Or better said, it works on all but one or two or three of the eggs in the pot. I suspect it has something to do with the genetic engineering so prevalent in the chicken industry. I suspect that layer chickens have been engineered to produce shells that are of a thickness that is both sturdy enough to ship and easy enough to crack.
I often think aloud ... actually, at the keyboard about the concept of "truth," which I suppose relates in a measure to the concept of reality.
From June 29, 2008 to October 25,2008, Matt took his wheelchair Roll’n Across America Summer 2008 to raise awareness for disability issues and represent Matt’s Place, a charity that Matt and his Respiratory Therapist Ron Steenbruggen started to build accessible houses for people with severe disabilities so they can live independently in their communities.Based upon my own experience, I'm guess'timating Matt will average, say, 3-miles-per-hour. If he can roll along about eight hours a day -- let's add an extra mile to make it even -- he can cover 3000 miles in the 120 days.
Matt will leave Red Rock Park at Lynn Beach in Lynn, Massachusetts on June 5, 2010 at 10am and drive his wheelchair on back roads across the USA with a final destination of The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. Matt’s goal is to cross the USA in the shortest time by wheelchair while collecting one dollar from one million people. The journey is estimated to take 120 days. The funds raised from the “Million Smiles Tour” will support the programs provided by Matt’s Place Inc.
I heard from a reader last week -- let's make that, a listener -- who said, "Recently, I listened to your book which I downloaded from the National Library Service for the Blind."
THE OPPOSITE FIELD: A Memoir Anyone can write a memoir. No, let’s say, Anyone has the stuff of memoir in a life lived, but it takes artistry, a facility with language, introspection, a measure of courage, and intellectual integrity to write a true memoir.
JUST FOOD:
Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
By James E. McWilliams
A sweet potato, garnished with pepper/onion salsa, two slices of five-whole-grain bread, a boiled egg, and two small pieces of dark chocolate.We searched for the one thing that would hold us together that Friday night, and we burned through the early morning hours rumbling through the inventory of all the things that were wrong, were painful, were intent on pulling us apart.Read the piece in full here.
