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Friday’s Food for Thought: Thoreau
Drifting in a sultry day on the sluggish waters of the pond, I almost cease to live and begin to be. A boatman stretched on the deck of his craft and dallying with the noon would be as apt an emblem of...
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Poetry Review: “My Father Perceived as a Vision of St. Francis” by Paula Meehan
“Drumcliffe High Cross” (photo by m.a.h. hinton) Ireland, pound for pound, has created more great writers than any other county on earth, especially poets. Here is a poem by Paula Meehan that is on my...
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10 Year Rewind: Green Hills of Africa
I am nearing my 10th Anniversary of blogging, first on MontanaWriter and now on ClimbingSky. The launch date for MontanaWriter was March 10, 2020. For the next little while, I plan to re-feature some...
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“Sweeney Astray” by Seamus Heaney
RE-READING For awhile I have been thinking that it is time to be re-reading and reviewing books that I have read over the years. Maybe as part of a larger project or just as a way of re-grounding...
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“District and Circle” by Seamus Heaney
RE-READING For awhile I have been thinking that it is time to be re-reading and reviewing books that I have read over the years. Maybe as part of a larger project or just as a way of re-grounding...
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Book Review: “Independent People” by Halldor Laxness
There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life. If you’re quite lucky, you may chance upon a novel which inspires so...
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Book Review: “Cannery Row” by John Steinbeck
When I was in 8th and 9th grade (more than 45 years ago!) I read a lot of John Steinbeck. Everything the small Broadwater County Library had. The library. which was cramped and dark, was in the...
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Book Review: “In Dubious Battle” by John Steinbeck
On the edge of Butte, Montana, in the Mountain View Cemetery, there is a gravestone for labor organizer/martyr Frank Little. On August 1, 1917, he was pulled from a boarding house by six armed men,...
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Book Review: “The Wayward Bus” by John Steinbeck
Last week after finishing In Dubious Battle, I continued my Steinbeck-binge by getting The Wayward Bus. Like Cannery Row and In Dubious Battle, this was another book I had first read 45 years ago in...
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Current & Recent Reads
“Currently Reading” (photo by m.a.h. hinton) I have admitted here before that I am an indiscriminate reader. I read about any genre. My usual habit is to read poetry and non-fiction earlier in the day...
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