A broad-winged hawk perched at the top of the dying maple in our field. Claudia heard it calling as she walked toward the car to go to church. We rushed…
Flying – or fleeing – from Boston Wednesday, on my way from a nascent gambling paradise to a burgeoning one, three articles in The Boston Globe struck me. *** On…
Once in a very long while – four times in my life – an actor leaps from the screen and into my deepest fears. I can never look at them…
The picture below, taken in Columbus, Ohio, two weeks ago, holds many ironies. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen fired on Kent State students, killing four and injuring nine…
Court House, New Lexington, Ohio. 5/27/10 The bar review: nothing this side of an oncology service waiting room matches the tedium coupled with fear of the eight to ten weeks…
Monday evening, US Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) attempted to explain in a debate amongst Republican candidates for President why he’d said Osama bin Laden should have been captured and tried,…
Few events affected me as much, I’ve written, as Winston Churchill’s passing on January 24, 1965. Each year at this time, I find myself reflecting on Churchill. This year…
Most people encounter Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) when they read about the London’s plague in 1665 or its great fire in 1666. His Diary holds the best first-hand account of both.…
Bennington, Vermont: Old First Church. 4/3/11 Updated: Jan. 11, 2012. What do Jack Benny, John D. Rockefeller and Robert Frost have in common? Each achieved greatness in a fiercely competitive…
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