The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry.

Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.