by Hilary Gallo | Dec 21, 2016 | Writing
The “Shim” question in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance poses a dilemma. Pirsig’s narrator knows that he and fellow rider John differ in how they approach the mechanics of the motorcycles they are riding. John is just not interested in the workings of the...
by Hilary Gallo | Dec 12, 2016 | Reading
I enjoyed this story about a quartet even if I did want to take the leading male character to task more than once. Seth asks the question about how a deaf piano player – the female lead character – would perform and even poses the question whether she...
by Hilary Gallo | Dec 11, 2016 | Reading
As you’d expect with Grayson Perry, there’s also some powerful art in this book. Do we fall prey to the dictats of “The Department of Masculinity”? Are men really equipping themselves for a world of peace as opposed to a world of...
