Writing
Today, July 5: Honor our veterans….
ArticlesOn July 5, 1932 veterans of World War I blocked the steps to the United States Capitol in futile...
CONTINUE READING →July 4: Was it worth the risk?
ArticlesHow much did your freedom cost you today? A bag of fireworks? A flag put up alongside your front...
CONTINUE READING →July 3: 1942 A world in turmoil
ArticlesIn Paris, 1942, German authorities rounded up prominent Jews, including author Irène Némirovsky, who on July 3 wrote to...
CONTINUE READING →This Day: July 2 The Sun Also Sets
Articles“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the...
CONTINUE READING →This Day — July 1: The Watershed of Our history
ArticlesFour score and seven years after the Declaration of Independence, all that already had happened in United States history...
CONTINUE READING →Seventy years ago
ArticlesWhat is happening today? There is war, or at least revolution, across North Africa and the Middle East, and...
CONTINUE READING →On my Nightstand
ArticlesFor the second time in a month, I found myself in London. Unfortunately, this was a working trip, with...
CONTINUE READING →Old Filth, (2004), and The Man in the Wooden Hat, (2009), by Jane Gardem
On the NightstandIf I am limited to recommend only one book, I urge you to read these two books. Jane Gardem...
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