Spring Bookstand Cleaning

It’s Spring again. My roses are growing up into the oak branches and the irises have blossomed for the season.  Our lawn is (temporarily) green and … the sounds of hammers and saws and boomboxes pound in my ears, the smell of paint fumes fills my study, and there is...

A Year for Travel……

December, 2016: 2016 was a year of travel. It took me to Maine and Colorado and Montana but most of my best travels were on my nightstand. If this is your first On the Nightstand, I review and rate my reads on watts – a 100-watt book keeps my night light on while a...

Hope, and Courage. On this day…

The Tet, February 29, 1968 The Tet attack on Huễ became the longest battle during the Tet offensive of 1968. It began when Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops stormed the citadel, or fort, of the city of Huễ on January 31, 1968, and overwhelmed the local authorities...