by Peter Scotchmer | Nov 10, 2026 | Review
Peter revisits Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory, a Mississippi odyssey in a 16-foot boat, and the towboat captain who turned out to be the travel writer’s kindred spirit. “A Midnight Race on the Mississippi,” Currier & Ives. Library of Congress. In the course of his...
by Peter Scotchmer | Oct 27, 2026 | Essays, Review
Peter writes a review of The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Picture Credit: Wikipedia The Phantom Tollbooth is an amusingly clever and highly engaging children’s story written in 1961 by the American architect Norton Juster about a cure for boredom. Like all...
by Peter Scotchmer | Oct 13, 2026 | Essays
Peter writes his seventh essay on his comfort books and a review of The Bookseller’s Tale. Picture Credit: Goodreads Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Polonius: I mean, the...
by Peter Scotchmer | Sep 8, 2026 | Essays
Peter writes his sixth essay on the ‘abusage’ of language, an affliction all too rampant today. Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Polonius: I mean, the matter that...
by Peter Scotchmer | Aug 25, 2026 | Stories
Peter Scotchmer’s latest short story introduces us to Wilf Wolflinger, apparently the smartest man on the street. My name is Wilf Wolflinger. You might have heard of me. I used to write travel books, but I’m too old for that now. My travelling days– to...