It has been slim pickings around here of late, but my topic-composition sheet for basil.CA has never been longer. Lately I have been reading like crazy (Paul Bowles, H.L Mencken, H. L. Mencken’s really talented biographer Fred Hobson, Jessica Mitford, guilty-pleasure memoirs, Rumi, children’s books, Terry Tempest Williams, Oliver Sacks, graphic novels, sedulous bloggers, anarchist zines, old copies of The New York Review of Books, and emails from friends and family), biking hard most every day, preparing for my fall courses (including one I’ve not taught before), and spending time with people I dearly like.

More prose is on its way …