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2015, AN ALMANAC

January 1, 2016 • Julie Saffrin • 4 Comments

and suddenly you know

“Time is not even, neutral, uniform, independent of man and culture. Time is not regular ticktock time. It varies, comes loaded, heavy or light or tragic or shaking with one or other passion, be that pain or pleasure—each reflecting very human affairs. Beginnings and ends, births and deaths, critical moments of liminality. Big ends, little ends. The shock of the new, the trauma of the old. Some times come unexpected, when we are not looking, and they stun us, perhaps for ever after.  Time is not calendar or the clock, it is the almanac.”1 2015, for some, was a year of intentions…

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S. L. Russell’s Land of Nimrod: Captured brilliance of ordinary people

June 4, 2012 • Julie Saffrin • 4 Comments

  Book Review for S. L. Russell’s Land of Nimrod by Julie Saffrin   I might as well say this at the get-go. For the review of Land of Nimrod, you will find some bias. I cannot help myself. For 246 pages, I was transported to England at the turn of the last century, where life is worked out by rain, train, walks and tea and more tea. Land of Nimrod, which released late in 2011, is the third and last of Sue Russell’s Leviathan trilogy. Though one can follow the storyline well enough to read the work as a…

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