Excerpt from Aristotle by Billy Collins # “This is the middle. Things have had time to get complicated, messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore.”

Somehow I’ve never written “Man vs. Nature” in the margins. B. Collins urges me to do so now, but I don’t see it. Man is also nature, and hmm… that’s the right way to bookend that vs.

Years ago, maybe a decade even, I fell in love with this software called Scrivener. I could never justify buying it because I didn’t actually write. But having that software would represent a little …