Books, Reading and Life
Notes from a life spent between briefs and books. What I’m reading, what it’s teaching me, and how it quietly reshapes the way I think, argue and live.
“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.”
— Francis Bacon
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An afternoon of shattered certainties (and glass)
a slice of life….
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Farewell, Dad
This is about my friend and father (“Comrade”). No, not really; this is about me trying to come to terms with my father’s illness…
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A poem on the Juvenile (In)Justice Act….
Here’s a poem I wrote some years back on how retribution, penal populism and moral outrage are the prime features of our juvenile justice…