I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan. No, not his music though cuts come up on my playlists. But his Theme Time Radio Hour which I catch on…
When the Church declares a person – always dead – to be a saint, s/he’s canonised. The books of the Bible the Church long ago established as scripture…
I started this post on Wednesday, a brilliant late fall day just as Nov. 22, 1963, was in southern New England. Like everyone else alive that day, I…
‘John Masters is now an almost forgotten novelist… A figure of quiet authority, he receives, in James Salter’s memoir Burning the Days (1997), the finest compliment a man…
US 23 runs flat and straight through large farms between Marion and Toledo, Ohio. When farmers fertilised fields with a winter’s hog manure, a young driver had 90 miles to…