‘What a pretentious title’, I thought as I started the BBC 4 documentary, ‘Johnny Cash: The Last Great American’ (2004). By the end of this thoughtful, fast-paced hour,…
Nine months and four days after we turned our Vermont home over to our contractor, Gary Daden, we returned to our gutted-and-rehabbed house. During the renovation process, we worked closely…
I admire singers who take other people’s songs and make them their own. Most lack the empathy to express the emotion in the words they may sing very well. In…
I am in Newport, R.I., celebrating the 4th with my three brothers. I have thought a lot about brothers over the past couple of weeks. The tragedy –…