As the subtitle indicates, this blog is a place where I post reflections and opinions on the books I'm reading and the music I'm listening to. 

It has always emphasized books and music, but was not explicitly limited to those topics, until January 2024. It has existed since January 2004 (here's a link to the first post), and for those first twenty years I wrote about pretty much anything that happened to be on my mind, with a particular tendency toward politics and religion in addition to books and music. It was initially just a way for me to put some writing out where other people can see it, delivering myself of various opinions and reflections, and also a reason for me to learn a little HTML and CSS, which I needed for my job. It was not, strictly speaking, a blog then, but a manually-composed web site. A couple of years later I moved it to Blogger, in part so that I could have a commenting facility, for which I  used Haloscan. In roughly 2010 I moved to Typepad, because various changes to Blogger and Haloscan had them unacceptable for my purposes. Unfortunately that meant the loss of all the comments, which was a significant loss, because there was a group of regular commenters who contributed to a number of interesting discussions.

2023 marked a nice round 20 years of the blog's existence. I had decided that I would close it down at the and of that year--not removing it, but not posting anymore. In 2004 I was 55 years old. I'm now 75, and tired of the pressure and distraction of posting at least once a week or so. But as the end of the year approached I began to realize how much I would miss it, and so decided to keep it going, but to cut out everything but books and music. 

For some years I had a weekly series here called The Sunday Night Journal. In 2016 I published a selection of the best of the these under the title Sunday Light. There's a brief, but not quite this brief, description of it at Goodreads. Since the individual items are short, probably a thousand words or so on average, and self-contained, I think it would be a nice book to have on one's bedside table. Here's a representative item, "Ending Up." 

The blog's name comes from a poem, "Causeway," which I wrote roughly ten years before I started the blog. It was published in a little literary magazine, The Elk River Review, which as far as I can tell no longer exists, so there is no copyright problem in my putting it online. 

--Maclin Horton
   Fairhope, Alabama