(T.A.E.’s LitBites) – A modern retelling of Richard III by William Shakespeare So here’s the vibe: the war is finally over. The long, messy family fight known as the Wars of the Roses is done, and the York family is on top. Peace, right? Everyone should be chilling. Except one guy. Richard. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, … Continue reading “Crooked Crown: The Ultimate Royal Backstab” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z
Revisionist Poetry – “Epitaphs in Stone” – Ghostly Stones, v.2
Ancient stones of marble and granitestand half-upright in their weathered rows,raised to remember,so often left behind.Sun bleaches their faces;rain stains their names;traffic and timework together to soften the edges. Their surfaces carry the hand of years,not gentle, but patient,as if memory itselfhad worn grooves into the grain.They keep watch over what is buried below,over the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Epitaphs in Stone” – Ghostly Stones, v.2
T.A.E.’s Book Review – Easy Concrete: 43 DIY Projects for Home & Garden by Malena Skote
Malena Skote’s Easy Concrete: 43 DIY Projects for Home & Garden is a surprisingly graceful book for a material so often associated with heaviness. Published in 2010 and circulated in English-language editions under both Lark Books and New Holland, it presents concrete not as brute substance but as a medium for domestic invention. Library and … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Easy Concrete: 43 DIY Projects for Home & Garden by Malena Skote
Revisionist Poetry – “The Woods with Rust in Their Throat” – A Bit of Goldsworthy & Adams, v.4… in a Tom Waits style lament…
I went down into the little suburban woodson a day when the sun was hot as a penny on a stove,and the leaves hung up therelike a room full of old lacegone brown at the edges. I was looking for the fallen ones,the trunks with their collars split open,the branches thrown out widelike a drunk … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Woods with Rust in Their Throat” – A Bit of Goldsworthy & Adams, v.4… in a Tom Waits style lament…
T.A.E.’s Book Review – Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence
Planta Sapiens is not content to be merely informative; it is argumentative, provocative, and impatient with the old habit of treating plants as passive background scenery. Calvo and Lawrence present the plant world as a field of intelligence in its own right, arguing that we should borrow tools from animal cognition to rethink how plants … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence
T.A.E.’s Book Review – East of Eden by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is less a novel than a moral cosmos: vast, restless, and haunted by the question of what human beings do with the freedom to choose. Its greatness lies not only in the sweep of its California setting or the interlocking tragedies of the Trasks and the Hamiltons, but in the … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Revisionist Poetry – “What the Woods Make of Loss” – A Bit of Goldsworthy & Adams, v.3
On a dry day, the woods become a galleryof broken trunks and exposed grain.I walk beneath thick leavesand find the fallen treesas if they had been arranged for study: a rib cage of branches,a canted spine of wood,a sunlit tangle of linesthat seems to belong to both accident and design. Goldsworthy would know this language:stone … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “What the Woods Make of Loss” – A Bit of Goldsworthy & Adams, v.3
T.A.E.’s Book Review -Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek’s Start With Why is less a business book than a manifesto of moral orientation. Beneath its polished corporate surface lies a surprisingly old and enduring literary idea: human beings are moved not first by method, product, or efficiency, but by purpose. The book’s central argument—captured in the author's famous formulation that people do … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review -Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Revisionist Poetry – “Suburban Reliquary” – A Bit of Goldsworthy & Adams, v.2
The sun presses through the leaves on this dry afternoonas I wander the small suburban woodsearching for fallen trunks,for branches bleached open by weather and time— the kind of accidental arrangementGoldsworthy might have welcomed,the kind of lightAnsel Adams would have sharpened into silence. The ground gives under my steps,a brittle crackle of leaf mold and … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Suburban Reliquary” – A Bit of Goldsworthy & Adams, v.2
T.A.E.’s Book Review – You Are a Badass Everyday… by Jen Sincero
You Are a Badass Every Day by Jen Sincero is less a conventional self-help book than a portable ritual of self-address. Penguin Random House describes it as a “companion” built from “one hundred exercises, reflections, and cues,” and that framing is exactly right: the book is modular, repetitive, and designed for daily return rather than … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – You Are a Badass Everyday… by Jen Sincero
The New Renaissance Mindset 