Monday, December 28, 2015

Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow: Book Review

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”-A. Huxley ...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Roberto Bolano's 2666: Book Review

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Roberto Bolano’s 2666: Review By Armando Ortiz Introduction: Roberto Bolano,born in Chile, spent significant time in Mexico with brief visit...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead: Book Review

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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead: Review by Armando Ortiz   “This utterly new world, hitherto unknown, the strangeness of some of t...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Alchemy of words: Short piece

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Alchemy of words By Armando Ortiz The tears of our mother cut through the ground making natural mesa roads. A tear gently rolls down you...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Winter Day: Arbor Day at Honey Badger

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Winter Day: Honey Badger by Armando Ortiz We sat there on the benches recalling, Arbor Day in Ann Arbor, like it was yesterday. Precambr...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Thoughts and sketches

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Thoughts and Sketches by Armando Ortiz 1. Anger takes a hold of us all words of hurt are like waterfall that hurt you more than the gnaw t...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Drifting Swifts: Hirundinidae of the Mind

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Drifting Swallows: Hirundinidae of the Mind By Armando Ortiz If I were to choose a bird to become, then a migrating swift would be the c...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Rolling: Short Piece

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Rolling By Armando Ortiz A ball bounced and floated like a soap bubble, yellow as the bright sun was the tumbling sphere, along a path i...