Les Miserables
Bittersweet, beautiful music for a troubled world. Thank you, Basil Poledouris, for the majestic minor key themes you left us. These days, I find so much harmony between the chords […]
Top 5 Iron Maiden Albums
Now and then it’s a necessity to close out current events, empty one’s head, and focus on great music. It can be so healing. With Iron Maiden, you’ll rock hard […]
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 […]
The House GOP Health Care Bill, Trump’s Skinny Budget, and James Carville
There are currently 17 “No” votes on the House Trumpcare bill. The Hill is tracking the whip count. Only 22 GOP defections and it’s dead and the White House suffers […]
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. […]
Chaos Theory of Business
When I researched Walkin’ Lawton, I found that Gov. Lawton Chiles’ first years in government were chaotic. Too many cooks in the kitchen. It was only when a new chief […]
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 […]
New Review for The Ambulance Drivers
Publishers Weekly has released its review of The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War. Here is an excerpt: As Morris perceptively argues, “Unlike […]
