Some are saying that we in America need to face our past squarely... in reference to racism, segregation ... and slavery. Healing won't come by glossing over the past. A Republican lawmaker in South Carolina said yesterday: We need to acknowledge our...

Lead Belly! I for some reason have been running into this dude so much lately. Maybe because some of his songs are coming out courtesy of the Museum in Wash. DC. I first encountered him, or better said, his name, on the back of Led Zeppelin's 3rd album,...

I've been reading "Writing Down the Bones" the last several months. The author bills it as writing with a Zen influence. And it is, at times. She says you should write... write... and write... and... Plus, you should try writing in different places, too....

Last night I saw the above movie from 1971 made by Peter Bogdanovich... at the old-time movie festival at the Mayan theater. Almost walked out on it, until I remembered what the host said about it at the beginning: it was a movie about people in a small...

Saw the movie this week... thought it was good. Based on Thomas Hardy's novel of many yrs. ago. Main character "Bathsheba" was of course an independent woman of sorts for her time. The Brits, novel as they are, pronounced her name BATH-sheba, accent on...

Actually, googling his name yesterday, I found that someone had researched the story I told previously re: above mayor of NYC. This person claims that LaGuardia gave his hatful of money to a little old lady who stole the bread for her grandkids! Even...

Flown in or out of LaGuardia International Airport? Know who it's named after? Fiorello LaGuardia was mayor of NYC around the 1940's. But before that, he was a US Congressman from Harlem and the surrounding area. Mr. L. was part Jewish and part - you...

I was listening to Mike Casey on 99.5 the Mtn. this a.m. (He is, by the way, a good d.j., has a heart as well as a head - gets into the history of rock and rock artists. Rick Lewis and friends show on 103.5 the Fox is titillating but vapid, little or...

No, you can't, according to the play "Our Town", but you can sure visit. I'm now back from my alumni reunion @ Swarthmore College. When you step back into your past for a couple days like that... lots of emotions, memories and thoughts come rushing in....

Am right now visiting my old college alma mater, Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa. After 39 yrs., things look amazingly different. But then, why shouldn't they? Even people look incredibly different after that period of time. I do too. Anyway, the...