Richard's Pretension

Boris Akunin is among my three favorite contemporary mystery writers. (Deon Meyer and Harlan Coben are the other two, though my all-time fa...

Sabine Hossenfelder is best known for her popular youtube physics channel , which has over half a million subscribers. She is noted for bein...

My oldest typewriter (stashed on a storage shelf) is an Underwood dating to the 1920s. It works though the keys require a heavy touch and th...

Due to limited space I try to keep my home library to its current size of about 2500 books. Since there are constantly new acquisitions (a b...

My house, like myself, is aging. Built in 1978, it is considerably younger than I am but is nonetheless solidly in middle age. It calls for ...

Several months ago I finally got around to getting my family/personal photo albums in reasonable order. Four ring binders comprise the physi...

The Millennials have aged to the level that Boomers (my group) reached in the 1980s. Perhaps it’s time to reboot the TV show Thirtysomething...