Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Happy 86th Birthday Valentino

Today is the 86th birthday of the fashion designer Valentino. His half a century run as the head of his self-named fashion house redefined what

Today is the 71st birthday of the magician and friend of the Muppets Doug Henning. I loved his TV specials when I was a kid.

I read I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara. I finished it three days

Today is the 126th birthday of a rebel. Corrie ten Boom and her family stood up, spoke up, and did what other people knew was

I have kept a journal since the summer of 1989, sometimes in notebook form, most recently in digital. I still have one, it is online

Today is the 88th birthday of the singer Marni Nixon. When I was a kid watching her TV show in Seattle, I had no idea

Today is the 73rd birthday of the woman who said: I get it now; I didn’t get it then. That life is about losing and about

Today is the 89th birthday of the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. We could use a lot of him right now. The world

Today is the 122nd birthday of the author John Dos Passos. I got to know his work through Hemingway and Fitzgerald. His membership in the

Today is the 45th birthday of Brandon Teena. He died a couple weeks after his 21st birthday, the result of a hate crime. There are

Today is the 87th birthday of the singer Marni Nixon. When I was a kid watching her TV show in Seattle, I had no idea