Gary Nabhan
My mother has long enjoyed and admired the nonfiction of naturalist Gary Paul Nabhan. I’ve just begun The Desert Smells Like Rain and I’m loving the earthy writing, the crisp […]
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation: A Film Score
1,001 tweets today on my Twitter account. I was reluctant to tweet initially, but now I see how vital the medium is to the news industry and to the writing […]
Lincoln on Wind Power
I’ve never done near enough reading in the complete works of Abraham Lincoln. I recently read the screenplay to Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln (2012), and that was a rich feast. […]
Bill Paxton
This photo of a young Bill Paxton seeing JFK just makes me miss him more. The Washington Post reports on that remarkable occasion. Sometimes you can sense the zest in […]
Elizabeth Warren, “She Persisted”
Elizabeth Warren reminds me a lot of my mother. An expert in her field. Unfailing reserves of energy. An ease with public speaking. Poise. Persistence. The America I love and […]
Glengarry Glen Ross
When I was a kid, my uncle told me about a play called Glengarry Glen Ross. I eventually came to love the movie adaptation, starring Alec Baldwin among others, which […]
Buckwheat Zydeco
Buckwheat means a lot to me. I saw him twice in Annapolis and I was so inspired that I included him in the preface to my bio on Lawton Chiles. […]
Summer’s End
My sister Lara is building her LinkedIn presence, posting articles and poetry. Check out her excellent poem, “Summer’s End.”
Raising a Bilingual Child
My sister wrote a wonderful LinkedIn post about raising a bilingual child. It’s poignant and inventive linguistically.
John Dos Passos Society Update
Congratulations to David Murad, the new president of the John Dos Passos Society. I’m confident in his leadership of this special group. To donate to the Society and support its […]
