A Multitude of Sins. The Stories of Richard Ford
Age bestows its many gifts with a kind of mysterious grace. My father, a witness to the many horrors of World War II, developed a passion for gardening when he …
Age bestows its many gifts with a kind of mysterious grace. My father, a witness to the many horrors of World War II, developed a passion for gardening when he …
Typically the purveyor of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is likely to be a dewy-eyed romantic or a reedy-looking professor of English with a corduroy sport jacket with reinforced elbows. Well, since I …
We all negotiate with life. As one of my literary mentors, David Quammen, elegantly wrote, “we do it invisibly, sometimes unconsciously, and alone, without benefit of collective bargaining. We come …
Yes, even years have super stars. 1492. 1776. 1865. But 1907 isn’t one that usually invites memory or reverence. 1907’s highlights have to be coaxed from history books. Oklahoma became …
100 years ago today at approximately 6:22 PM, Mark Twain died in Redding, Connecticut. At his deathbed were his daughter Clara and her husband, Dr. Robert Halsey, Dr. Quintard, his …