I will resume blogging next week about my European travels (Paris and Venice) as well as about legal positivism. In the meantime, now that I am done with teaching until the fall, I will be turning my full attention to my modest pile of unread or partially-read books pictured below:

Note: In the oval picture frame to the left, yours truly is pictured with Hilary Hemingway, one of the great Ernest Hemingway’s nieces, who. I had the honor of meeting in May of 2003 at the Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana, Cuba.
David Ortiz? Having grown up in Massachusetts I find that book selection to be interesting. Potential Red Sox fan or a fan of Ortiz as a player?
The latter!
I should clarify: having grown up in Los Angeles and having spent countless hours listening to Vin Scully’s broadcasts of baseball games, I was an L.A. Dodger fan … until the 1994 strike. That’s when I stopped watching baseball!