José Alaniz
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10/30/24
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José Alaniz
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8/28/24
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José Alaniz
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7/31/24
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Every year by mid-spring, you see them erupting all over the KP and surrounding area: the golden flowers that bedazzle.
A couple of years ago, I took note of them as we were driving back from …
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José Alaniz
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7/31/24
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José Alaniz
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6/26/24
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José Alaniz
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5/29/24
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José Alaniz
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5/1/24
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José Alaniz
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3/27/24
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José Alaniz
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2/28/24
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José Alaniz
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1/31/24
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The scene took place last Spring. Four middle-aged male humanities professors were sitting together in a pub in Vancouver, BC, sipping beer, sharing their impressions of a just-concluded conference. …
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José Alaniz
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12/27/23
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José Alaniz
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12/27/23
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‘Tis the season — for all those Mariah Carey horror memes.
Truth to tell, I’ve actually never minded the song; it’s fine. The horror comes from having it repeated ad …
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José Alaniz
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11/30/23
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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11/30/23
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Fellow KPers — get thee to YouTube and watch “The Maple Cutter,” a 2023 documentary by Daniel Hoffman and Lynn M. Thomas.
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José Alaniz
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11/2/23
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Graphic notes on local life.
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José Alaniz
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11/2/23
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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9/27/23
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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8/30/23
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In mid-July we lost our elderly French Alpine goat, Sophie. It got me thinking about the role that death plays in our little homestead here on the KP.
We got Sophie along with her daughter …
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José Alaniz
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8/2/23
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As someone who teaches college-level literature classes for a living, once or twice a year I find myself giving my students some version of this speech:
It’s no surprise to me that I only …
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José Alaniz
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8/2/23
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