I’ll admit it, I’ve always been a literary nerd. I earned a master’s degree in Latin American literature back in the ’80s, but way back in the late ’60s, when other kids were spending their allowances on Matchbox toys, I spent mine on books by the New York beat poets—ten cents each in the Bowery for collections by Ginsberg or Ferlinghetti—oh what pleasure to stride the boardwalks in A Coney Island of the Mind. Then I Grew Up … After … Read More »

Go Ye Forth and Categorize In Genesis, humankind was given the right to name and categorize living things. God formed every beast…and brought them to the man…and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. (Genesis, 2:19-20) With all the “beasts” named and put in their proper place, humans could make better sense of their surroundings. Fast … Read More »