Archives for 2021
Homework for today – You will be tested on this material!
It started out as homework, doing some reading on the French & Indian War, thinking about building a customer’s collection. I soon got onto Francis Parkman, magnificent chronicler of this period. I’d read some of his histories before and they all seemed to be worth re-reading, especially his “Montcalm & Wolfe” – about the long […] More >>
And now back to our regularly scheduled program
Okay, folks. Black Friday has come and gone without a peep from Ten Pound Island Book Co. No super-duper Black Friday Bargains, no Cyber Monday!!!, no trendy “Must-Buy These!” ads, and most of all, no “Holiday Gift Suggestions.” (I dislike those the most. All greedy holiday advertising is annoying, but these “suggestions” are invasive. How […] More >>
My Morons
I’ll keep this short. In this morning’s paper, I read about a seventeen-year-old boy with an obviously still-developing brain, at least as far as impulse control was concerned, who illegally took possession of a military-grade killing machine, and murdered two people. The dead ones happened to be white, but make no mistake. He was there, […] More >>
“We were all making money on it!”
True to my word, I hit the road last Thursday. Three calls along the Maine coast, then across the top of the state to Vermont, then down. Fresh, sparkling snow in the early Sunday morning sun all the way from the Canadian border to the White Mountains. Spent a few grand and had a hell […] More >>