Hard to think of a better example of misplaced romantic nostalgia than yearning for the days before the era of…
I've been reading the quite wonderful Tirzah Garwood memoir Long Live Great Barfield - a book that deserves several posts…
"You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October afternoon," said the niece, indicating a large…
We had just evacuated all the students to the playground, lined them up and done a head count. It wasn't…
Langston Hughes wrote this in 1935. It had meaning and relevance then. It still has. Read it. Let America Be…
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I don't think I peeled a clove of garlic until I was at least 21. It wasn't because I didn't…
He went to school in Marlborough and loved to take long and sometimes solitary walks across the Wilshire downs. So…
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Relativity There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one…