Rereading the Classics

Okay, I admit to not having read many of the classics when I was a kid, and regret even more so bypassing these masterworks for all the decades I’ve been an adult. But there were a number I did read…you remember, all those assigned books we were forced to tackle in school. Among that number was The Old Man and the4 Sea.

This book, basically a novella, had rested on my bookshelf for years.

One day, it caught my eye and I decided to give it another read. My sole motivation was to see what had m...