Category Archives: Books & Literature
Hemingway in Paris
A friend recommended I read Hemingway’s A Movable Feast. The book consists of twenty vignettes, later-remembered stories of France where Hemingway was a poor, struggling writer during the years 1921 through 1926 and married to Hadley Richardson, his first wife. … Continue reading
Taking Leave of Some Teachers
Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Others The last name of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a household word in my father’s family, along with that of Gurdjieff’s major disciple, Peter Demianovich Ouspensky. I remember hearing these two strange sounding names from the mid-1940s … Continue reading
The Pavellas Perspective 