James Hazlett Foreman

A Note About Names

My name is James Hazlett Foreman. That’s the name I was given by my parents, though I suspect my mother had more to do with it than my father. I say this not because of a lack of fatherly interest in child-rearing but because of a great deal of interest in names on the part […]

The Joy of Being Unmoored

I don’t know how else to describe how I feel, so I went with something nautical. The nautical thing is an affectation, not an endorsement. I like nautical things in the same way I like wars that never happened—nobody was actually hurt, and it’s all just imagination (the star wars, for example). I like the […]

A Year in Review: 2020

There’s a lot of “happening” happening and frankly I’m sick of it.  Oh man. Oh jeez. Where do I even begin? There’s no central narrative to Jim’s 2020, though COVID will dominate. That’s just the A Plot. The B and C Plots for your 2020 were different depending on who you are—maybe you lost your […]