by Nathan Reed | Feb 4, 2014 | blog, Poetry
I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. I’ve not seen any of the commercials. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the...
by Nathan Reed | Feb 21, 2013 | blog
David Foster Wallace would have been 51 yesterday. So often we talk about how freedom empowers us — less often, we think about the obligations freedom conveys. I love this quote by Wallace: The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness,...
by Nathan Reed | Feb 14, 2013 | blog, stories
Hilary Mantel, one my favorite authors (she wrote Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies, and won the Booker Prize), wrote a long but interesting article for the London Review of Books. She discusses everything from Marie Antoinette, Kate Middleton, Henry VII, and more....
by Nathan Reed | Feb 10, 2013 | blog
Some things you learn too late in life. The word “forte” is actually two words, but we generally pronounce it the wrong way. You probably hear it pronounced ˈfȯr-tē (or “for-tay”). Unless you’re talking about a piano, you should pronounce...
by Nathan Reed | Dec 28, 2012 | blog, stories
In our small town of Dyer, there are numerous stories that almost everyone (at least the “old-timers”) knows by heart. Some have spawned phrases that are now part of the local lexicon… The tale of “Charlie Moore’s cat” spawned such...
