Richard's Pretension

Pocket reviews of recent recreational views and reads: Paramour (in previews) The high-flying acrobatics of the Canadian t...

It will be no surprise to readers of this blog that the author was trackside at last night’s local derby bout in Morristown between the Jer...

When you live in a locality where your family has roots, there are reminders all around of those who are gone. I live five miles from where...

Writers always are advised to “write what you know.” That advice is not as restrictive as it sounds. It doesn’t mean that someone with a da...

My cat Maxi doesn’t actually try to kill me, so far as I know. At 17 (the median lifespan of a domestic cat with a home is 16), he most o...

I circled the house this morning in order to assess the post-winter clean-up challenges: branches, leaves, fallen trees, wall and fence rep...

While tussling with the flu (see You Give Me Fever a few blogs back), I had time for some views and reads. Pocket reviews of four of them ...