We Are Suffering from Blogger's Block

Yes, this bout with blogger's block reminds me of the days when I taught English as a Second Language at a minimum-security prison in Yanceyville, NC, just across the border from Danville, Va. I should point out that I wasn't an inmate there myself!

But, hopefully, someone in Finland, Croatia or Iran is actually reading this, and hopefully that person realizes that even in America one can become bored and confused and somehow try to function!

Of course, people like Mark Twain, Nazim Hikmet* and F. Scott Fitzgerald never had to worry about blogger's block!

*- A famous Turkish poet who died in Moscow some 50 years ago.

Quote of the Week- Quentin Tarantino

Having once worked as a teacher in a North Carolina prison (I was NOT an inmate there, oh btw!), I am not sure I would share this view from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino:

"I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue."

PSA- Return Your Library Books!

Today's Public Service Announcement is a relatively straight forward one: Be sure to return your darn library books!

I actually saw a copy of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s anti-war classic novel "Slaughterhouse Five" at the Shenandoah County Prison Library in Woodstock, Va., a few years ago. I should add I was NOT an inmate there, but merely visiting the institution as a newspaper reporter.

To this day, I wonder how often that book is 'checked out' there.