At times of difficulty and loss, families close ranks, they circle the wagons and protect. At least my family does, gladly. Those long elastic familial
Happy Birthday Hemingway
Today is the birthday of Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois (1899), the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such books as The Sun Also Rises (1926), A
Happy Birthday Hunter
It’s the birthday of journalist Hunter S. Thompson, born in Louisville, Kentucky (1937). After the California attorney general issued a report in 1964 on a
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Walter Cronkite, America’s preeminent television journalist of the 1960s and 1970s who as anchor and managing editor of “CBS Evening News” played a primary role
Pablo Neruda
“Here I Love You” – Pablo Neruda In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself. The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters. Days, all
Faded Opulence. Perspective. Siddhartha.
My favorite part about the History Channel’s “Life After People” is when they visit already abandoned locations. I love old things that are falling apart.
