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One of my favorite topics to write about is the art of writing, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. It strikes me as being curiously redundant to write about the written word. Yet, I’m obsessed by it and have written about it previously.
Books are amazing things that can transcend centuries, cultural differences, educate, terrify and comfort [...]

Back in 2006 I wrote a post about baseball. In that post, I briefly mentioned my dad taking me, when I was little, to a local book store called “Copperfield’s” to meet the legendary Dave Dravecky.
Dave Dravecky was a Major League pitcher for, most notably the San Francisco Giants. At the height of his [...]

Hermann Hesse was a German poet and author who was born in 1877. Hesse was an antiwar activist during World War 1. During this time his first marriage ended in divorce and he turned his focus on the works of Freud. After some time he underwent analysis with Jung and was for some time a [...]

In my Junior year of high school our English teacher, Mr. Potchatek, had us plow through some of the most detail-rich and sleep-inducing novels I’ve ever picked up. Works the like of “The Great Gatsby” and “Moby Dick” just to name a few. While, as usual, these books and their related assignments required much more [...]

When I was in middle school, my friend Ian threw fuel on the fire that was my love of reading, when he recommended that I read “Watchers” by Dean Koontz. Reading “Watchers”, I felt like a grown up. Instead of reading the typical kid stories, I was reading a book for the first time that [...]