We probably shouldn’t have spent the whole of yesterday playing Dungeons & Dragons with Les & Ed and their boys, especially considering that we still had family visiting from out of town, not to mention a ton of other stuff we should have been doing, like putting up storm windows and so forth. But it [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Tap-root
I’m sure the metaphor of man-as-tree is old as the hills, and we all talk about having roots, but Robertson Davies takes it further. It’s a major theme throughout his work, particularly in the Cornish trilogy. In The Rebel Angels Parlabane tells Maria: I have thought a good deal about trees; I like them. They speak [...]
In defense of Lauretta Codrington
This isn’t a current events blog — hell, this blog isn’t even current — but we had a current event here that I can’t let go by without a comment. Lauretta Codrington hit the national news last week when she a) was one of two holdout jurors who voted not to convict a young man of [...]