Sermonette?
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005: It’s only taken three decades to admit I’m a Westerner. That is, I began reading about Eastern religions in my pre-teen years. (It was the late 1960s and the Beatles were into the Maharishi, all reported in Time, Life and the Arkansas Gazette, received at the […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, June 7, 2005: Why is it that very smart people do such stupid things? I am a very smart person so I should know. -30-
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, May 18, 2005: Instead of speaking out of turn, here is a Brick. While sketching with some others in Gulley Park at twilight, a family approached: a mom, two boys and a dog tethered to one of the kids. Intelligent kids, you could tell. The dog had a long […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, May 16, 2005: I keep forgetting to enjoy the new Fayetteville Public Library. My usual habit is to hit the 10-minute curb parking and go in long enough for the book I had put on hold via the Internet or to choose a fresh book-on-CD. The new building though […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, May 8, 2005: An ode to Mother’s Day. It’s the first one since Mom passed last November. I’ve started reading a new, and perhaps the only so far, full biography of Ogden Nash. Here is a lede that won’t work in my eventual newspaper review of it: It’s more […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, May 4, 2005. With help of another college friend who e-mailed me out of the blue, I’ve gotten the e-mail address of my freshman roommate. This was well over a month ago, and only now have I written a real letter to him. If Stanford hired a roommate-yenta, she […]