The Recovering Hopper

  A long, long time ago I did a series of posts here at the Recovering Hopper entitled “Words I Hate.”   These were (and still are) lin...

  I s when you excitedly crack open a book newly purchased …   … and discover that the prior owner has graffiti’d it all up with either ...

  O kay, here’s something a little unexpected and unusual.   I’ve never been an outdoorsman. Had I lived in medieval times I’d probably ...

  All kidding aside, I’ve had a biography of Christopher Columbus stored along with two or three dozen other books of miscellaneous genres i...

  W eird birthday this year. It fell in the middle of the week, during a stressful time for the Mrs. – she had CEOs from Europe touring her ...