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Oct 31, 2019
They Died With Their Boots On
Halloween 2019 The spirit of the American West was not risk-averse. It hungered for danger, in a way that 21st-century Americans can only...
Oct 19, 2019
Grid Blackouts - Imagine It’s All Connected
October 2019 Growing up in New Jersey, I departed at a young age from that state with the conclusion that corruption between politicians...
Oct 17, 2019
Working Notes - Locked Horns
Thursday, 17 October 2019 I tried yesterday to start inputting onto my laptop my pen-scrawled French translation of the second half of...
Oct 12, 2019
Elizabethan Verse
Columbus Day 2019 I heartily enjoy Elizabethan verse, although many people do not. I’d even considered creating a Great Books library...
Sep 27, 2019
An Ode to Uno
27 September 2019 This post is not a poem or even a song, but an outpouring of a grateful heart which is, in its highest sense, a poem or...
Sep 10, 2019
The Hessians Have Arrived - The Revolution at Last
10 September 2019 On the eve of 9/11, I offer a prayer to the Almighty for all who suffered and who suffer still because of evil and its...
Sep 1, 2019
Slap Happy
September 2019 I wonder if the touchy-feely alarmists ought to be treated for the heartbreak of psoriasis. They are so thin-skinned and...
Aug 21, 2019
Bridget Memories
21 August 2019 Yesterday, almost accidentally, I found the Bridget Fabrics: layers cakes and charm packs and jelly rolls from The Fat...
Aug 9, 2019
The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Treasure Island
May 2019 The X Marks the Spot The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Treasure Island (Adapted for Television by Walter Black) A Book Review...
Aug 5, 2019
The Cookie Re-Crumbled
August 2019 Update The decade’s end is approaching, and I see no sign in sight of the advertising geniuses having re-built that span...
Aug 1, 2019
Disney on Strike! Part II
August 2019 The Wonderful World Beyond Disney: by Ronald Milligan After the Walt Disney Strike of 1941, things were never the same for...
Jul 17, 2019
The Big Pavelski
17 July 2019 Little Joe, the Big Pavelski, the Captain, the guy with the Doritos-Sunkissed-Beard. The names are many, but the most...
Jul 15, 2019
The Summer Garden
Summer 2019 It holds secrets all its own, no matter where the botanic creation thrives. The concept is the same, no matter where the...
Jul 5, 2019
At Last - 4 July 2019
5 July 2019 My years in Washington, D.C. were wretched ones, highlighted by a half-a-dozen stellar, stalwart individuals whom I...
Jul 1, 2019
Summer Driving Lessons
July 2019 Sure, It’s Eggy . . . The automobile and I have a fairly tortured history. And, in all fairness to myself, it wasn’t a one-way...
Jul 1, 2019
Disney on Strike!
July 2019 Prelude During the autumn of 2018, Debra began to read what is deemed the definitive biography of Walter Elias Disney — Walt...
Jun 21, 2019
Revolution! Almost a Miracle
Summer Reading 2019 Almost a Miracle by John Ferling Published 2007 It is with enormous pleasure that I am reading this book about the...
Jun 6, 2019
Book Four: Operation Nottingham - Op Nott
D-Day 2019 Ah ! Comment Artur me manque ! Oh! How I miss Arthur! In French, missing someone is a matter of putting the onus on the other...
May 27, 2019
The Bands and the Beeb
Memorial Day 2019 It was during my research into the voluminous materials that would transform my ideas for a war novel called NOTTINGHAM...
May 1, 2019
Etiquette: The Art of Refinement
May 2019 I was raised with a ton of etiquette. Manners were the strong suit of my mother. Morals is where she fell down, precipitously...
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