One Third

Hello Kids, Just wanted to say that as I start posting my book/blog, it's somewhat Dickensian (is that right?). I don't mean that in an egotistical way but that it's shaping up to be like a 21st-century serialized novel that you read backwards. The oldest post is the first and thus backwards is (almost) always forward. :)

2. Uzbekistan , Early 2003 In Ulugbek , Uzbekistan , [1] the neighborhood people burn their garbage every Tuesday evening at that part of the day I love and, which, in Spanish is poetically called “el atardecer.” Uzbeks burn their trash because they don’t have a trash pick-up service. That’s what I deduced; I could be wrong. The air on Tuesday evenings can be stifling. A brownish gray fog engulfs the village. As the sun recedes and true darkness takes over, little hearths dot the night in the yards of homes and apartment buildings. The scene seems ritualistic but it’s merely functional. Uzbeks dispose of food scraps, chicken bones, the shapely peels of oranges, fatty gristle, and many other indistinguishable organic bits and pieces by simply tossing them out in the yard. Surely, a scrappy “wild” dog or some other such creature will happily scoop up such waste and abscond with it. Not so with paper and tissues and the like. They must be burned. This category of things to be burned ...

Ok, ok. My first post. Here's what's what: I started last fall, fall 2007, to write my first book. It's what I've started to call a semi-autobiographical, travelogue, self-help book. But I hope it's not as dull as it sounds. What I'm going to do is post a bit of it every day or so, chapter by chapter. Once I run out of "book," I'll just keep writing. Perhaps you can give me some feedback or, if you work for the book publishing industry and see a glimmer of potential in me, give me a call or email. Really! Please do. I have plenty of other ideas and lots of energy. Plus, I'm a fast typist. The book's working title was: The Birds and The B It's subtitle: Autobiographical Sketch, Mini Travelogue, Cultural Commentary, & A Calculus of Life Things you should now: Unable to escape my past work in scholarly book production, the "book," now blog, was footnoted. Now it will be endnoted, meaning, there will be note numbers in the tex...