Eric's Hangout

By this, I mean this post will have a number of diverse topics, all held together loosely by a through-thread of being at least tangentially...

So I had out-patient surgery on Monday (nothing too, too serious).  The hardest part for me was following the doctor's orders of two day...

My interest in literary figures is fairly cyclical. There was a long period where I was mostly reading non-Western authors, particularly th...

So it is going around that Doris Lessing has just passed away at the age of 94.  A life well-lived, according to those close to her.  Intere...

With a lot of things that are related to science, I generally have a ballpark idea of how to answer the question, though I'll have to up...

I hate to break it to you, but your friends, even your true friends, are not all that interested in what your children are up to. That does...

This is meant to be a continuation of the discussion at the tail end of this post . So I have already tracked down 4 of the 7 or so books ...