Widower's Tango

I have mentioned before on this blog a favorite poem, "The Voyage to Secrecy," by the Scots poet Norman Cameron. Late in my Navy c...

Kichie When it comes to pets, a lot of us are dog people. The majority of my friends are among them. They post photos of their dogs o...

It began in 2014, I believe, when The Huffington Post ran an article that, for sheer purblind stupidity, would be hard to beat. "A L...

"Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind."(1) (Wilfrid Sheed) Speaking now as a former fan about baseball, I want ...

You big game hunters out there (all thirteen of you), take heart. The Trump administration, the Guardians of the Gigarich, have not forgotte...

I get the feeling that Charles Schulz, creator or the Peanuts comic strip and writer of the Charlie Brown television specials, didn't...

How could I conscionably resist commenting on the auction at Christie's in New York of a painting only recently attributed to Leonardo...