MOST RECENT ESSAY
A Long Vacation
"Taking a broad view, it could be argued that most of my life has been little more than one Long Vacation..."
RECENT UPDATES
- 10/13: A Long Vacation in Essays
- 10/04: Released my second novel Pierre & The Ambiguities and created the Novels page.
- 09/30: Philip K Dick Overview in Features
- 09/24: In Search of Enchanted Images in Essays
- 09/16: Journeying East in Essays
- 08/31: Communication Technologies & Compulsive Behaviour: A Personal Analysis in Essays
- 08/21: Hermann Hesse Overview in Features
- 08/19: My Friend Who Died in Essays
- 08/03: Personality and Self in Essays
- 07/21: Day 4 of the Mid-June Journal Vol 2
- 06/03: Trapped in Costco in Essays
BEST OF BALCKWELL
Personal
- The Weather Is Going to Get Cold Soon...
- Can I Ride Upon A Cloud?
- Being Hit With A Stick
- Heaven & Good Things
- In a Town Where I Am Going To Live
- A Retreat to the Customs Office
- What More Could You Ask For?
- Hello, Japan. Goodbye, My Japan (RAINICHI 2023 #-001)
- Reach Out to the Truth of My Life (Part One) (Part Two)
- When Conversation is Impossible
- The Graveyard Story
- You Can (Not) Go Back
- What The Hell Am I Doing Here?
- The Internet Made Me Stupid
- Irreconcilable Distances, Permeable Boundaries, Overlapping Memories
"Criticism"
- Apolitical Borges
- In The Eyes of the Unfathomable Deity
- Call Him Ishmael
- A Dream of Red Mansions
(Dream of the Red Chamber), Cao Xueqin - By Hook or By Crook: A Hater's Quest to Enjoy Shakespeare
- Demian, Herman Hesse
- Frankenstein, or
the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelling - A Brief Introduction: Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
- Kafka’s Nightmares
- In Xanadu
- The Boy and the Heron
- The Daikon Farmer Points the Way, With a Daikon
- Neil Young's Mesoamerica