Orwell wrote an autobiographical essay, Why I Write, in 1946, in which he pointed out four reasons why writers write. The first is sheer egoism—to express oneself, to be known to all, and to be ...
This is a story about a car. And of time, memory, and knowing when to let go. On the last long trip in our old Jeep I topped a hill west of Meade in southwest Kansas one evening and was buffeted by ...