Super Bowl XLVI

Some of you will be cheering for the Giants this evening, others the Patriots (around here it’s Patriots or nothing, except when it’s Red Sox or Bruins).  You may find yourselves cheering opposite teams in front of the same flat-screen TV (from opposite sides of the living room) because New York and New England overlap [...]

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Hemingway Fix #4: The End of Something

She loved to fish.  She loved to fish with Nick.” Ernest Hemingway wrote that line as the epitaph to a love affair.  The story hinges on it.  And the following line nearly became the epitaph to this blog post: “Dad!  You’ve got to blog about something besides Hemingway!” Daughter Number One caught me doing an [...]

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Hemingway fix #3: Hills Like White Elephants

The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings of bamboo [...]

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Hemingway Fix #2: In Another Country

In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.’’ So begins Hemingway’s short story In Another Country. In many of his stories we see a story within.  Here we have a snapshot of two patients in a military hospital in Milan during World War I.  An American officer, [...]

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This one’s for Marya

Then they began to climb and they were going to the East it seemed, and then it darkened and they were in a storm, the rain so thick it seemed like flying through a waterfall, and then they were out and Compie turned his head and grinned and pointed and there, ahead, all he could [...]

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