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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 …
A short missive on Shakespeare and Sonnet #2
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 …
Mortality and wisdom. Or, I’ll take Nirvana with the points.
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 …
Mark Twain and the panic of 1907
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 …
My Friend Mark Twain
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 …
