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Gimbling in the Wabe – I Have a Son

Published on : 15 July, 201615 July, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

I have a son. He’s 26, works the late shift in the medical pharmacy at the University hospital. Sometimes at night, instead of taking public transit home, he runs from work to his apartment near downtown – a couple of miles. His apartment is not in the best part of town, but he likes living [….]

Gimbling in the Wabe – Glorious Failures

Published on : 16 May, 201412 May, 2014 Published by : Sharon Browning

My daughter was looking over the syllabus from a college English class that she had just started, and she was distraught over the thought of having to make an in-class critique of another student’s writing. “I’m just not good at that sort of thing!” she despaired. I tried to allay her concerns by pointing out [….]

On this day, April 19, in 1900, author, journalist, poet and playwright Richard Hughes was born in Weybridge, Surrey, England. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in the US, an honorary member of both the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1946. Interesting facts: he wrote the world’s first radio play, Danger, broadcast by the BBC in 1924, and he was good friends with poet Dylan Thomas (who wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog while leasing a boathouse from Hughes). He died in 1976, at age 76.

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