the morning commute – deep thoughts

I once took a Literature and Culture course that discussed the sublime. According to dictionary.com, the sublime is “impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe.” In the class, we discussed how the sublime was typically something vast and even frightening; this concept of the sublime comes from Edmund Burke [...]

two roads diverged

There seem to be two schools of thought when it comes to reading books in a series. Many readers pick up the first novel in a series and then wait with relish for the next installment, sometimes for years before they can scratch that itch of anticipation. Other readers look at a book, notice that [...]