KURT VONNEGUT ON THE DEATH OF KURT VONNEGUT Writer Kurt Vonnegut died today. He was 94 years old. I read a number of his novels while in high school, being told he was a “classic.” I remember reading him with mild amusement, and in the twenty five years since I have rarely thought of his books again. I remember over the past decade reading a newspaper article or two where in an interview Vonnegut decried the entire 20th and coming 21st century world as having no good to it. “Go ahead and die already then if you have outlived your time and hate it!” was my response at the time.…
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Worries of a New Father
Father and daughter three weeks into their relationship. “A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER” I look down at my daughter and search for signs of what will be. Right now to Julia the whole world is contained in a feeding or in trying to digest food or conciliate sleep. She is only 23 days old. People say Julia already resembles me, that she has my mouth, etc, but she just looks like a baby to me. Her traits and demeanor seem like those of any other baby, as far as I can see: eat, sleep, cry – repeat over and over again. But surely some marks of her character…