by Bill Roushey | Nov 6, 2018 | A word, Living, Random thoughts, Short and sweet, Uncategorized
Carl Sagan was an atheist who had this to say about the power a book possesses. “What an astonishing thing a book is,” marveled [Carl] Sagan. “It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance...
by Bill Roushey | Oct 1, 2018 | Uncategorized, What to read
I came across a copy of The Old Man and the Sea while cleaning a bookshelf. A required read in high school, I recalled very little of it. I was anxious to give it another look. It’s a short story about a Cuban fisherman down on his luck. He’s an...