“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.” -Edmund Burke There’s something a little surreal about the events of the 4th of July weekend. It was the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The years-long series of events planned to
Behind a rack of cloud the moon is pale. Cold stone, its fires out. And who’s to say the brightest star has not long since become a gap in heaven, an appetite for light? My own does little good against such darkening. -from "Storm System” I was thinking
Michael Silverblatt died on February 14th. It’s been years since his KCRW program Bookworm went off the air. It was a situation that was confusing for many of us. I think we assumed that he was sick, but then he didn’t return, and he hadn’t died. Being
Today is December 1, which means November is finally over. November always gets to me. There are multiple reasons for this. The time change and the early darkness. The arrival of winter, which we can no longer ignore as we pack away our shorts and pull out sweaters and flannel-
Recently I watched the 1995 pilot of a show called Land's End. Fred Dryer was apparently a football player, but I know him as an actor. He was on a few episodes of Cheers as a sportscaster and old team mate of the series lead Sam Malone (played
[EDITORS NOTE: Due to various issues, this did not run when it was intended, the first Monday of the month, the day before the US Elections on November 4.] There are so many races, locally and across the nation, that I’m watching. The one that seems to be on
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