Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

      James Thurber was blind, nearly. His increasingly sightlessness gave him a very keen ear for language. He loved word games and odd ac...

      The 5th anniversary of the Sandy Hook slaughter caught me off guard Thursday. In recent years, I've pretty much stopped reacting ...

  I explained t he story behind this enigmatic tombstone a couple years back.            I had never heard the name "Chris Pla...

      Writers cheat death. Briefly. Sometimes.       That doesn't mean they don't die. They do. The writers themselves that is. Bu...

     Whew!      That's the short version.      At least the country hasn't gone completely crazy. Any loss for Donald Trump is a ...

          I would never say that I had a favorite reader. There are so many thoughtful voices and faithful followers, I'd hate to have ...

      The photo to the right, of course, is the scrum of people crowded around the Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci's masterwork on displ...