Blog We Choose Readers Years ago when I was on the Board of Editors for what was then called Perspectives magazine, a consultant brought…Scott HoezeeNovember 28, 2023
Blog Now and Then (and the One to Come) A cartoon that made the rounds on social media around the time of the Fall time change a week ago…Scott HoezeeNovember 14, 2023
Blog God of Sorrows The world is a bleak place these days. Long about the time one had gotten used to having an abiding…Scott HoezeeOctober 31, 2023
Blog Mounjaro and Me I am guessing that not a lot of RJ readers have heard of something named Mounjaro. But thanks to heavy…Scott HoezeeOctober 17, 2023
Blog Until the Work Is Done For many years Dennis Rader was a respected member of his Park City, Kansas, community. By all appearances he was…Scott HoezeeOctober 3, 2023
Blog By Chance? The New York Times has been, one suspects, doing very well these days through its Games/Puzzle division. Of course for…Scott HoezeeSeptember 19, 2023
Blog Paul Sends His Love The title of today’s RJ blog is borrowed from a chapter title in a book of essays by the late…Scott HoezeeSeptember 5, 2023
Blog Shouting in Libraries My colleague Gary D. Schmidt is an award-winning author of Middle Grade fiction and so speaks all over the country. …Scott HoezeeAugust 22, 2023
Blog Forbidden? Late in this summer’s blockbuster Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer viewers are presented with a disorienting set of images. It is…Scott HoezeeAugust 8, 2023
Blog The Good Stuff As I was casting about for ideas for this week’s blog, my eyes Sunday fell on the latest NY Times…Scott HoezeeJuly 11, 2023