Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

     I can't remember a trip that settled as gently into memory as our April trek through Italy and France. The cities—Rome, Florenc...

     "Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."      That's Shakespeare, not me, I should mention, lest I be accus...

    If you don't see something, despite looking for it, it could be:    A) it isn't there.    B) it is there, but occurring outsi...

The hated letters went up on Trump Tower three years ago this week.      We all know how well Donald Trump is doing as a president.   ...

     The money clip in Ann Tyler's 14th novel, A Patchwork Planet  is modest— "A leather money clip, the kind you make from a k...

      A cell phone today is as necessary as shoes, and most of us would feel as naked leaving the house without a phone as we would ...

   In 1855, an Illinois railroad lawyer named Abraham Lincoln wrote to his longtime friend, Joshua Speed, who had moved back to thei...