In an American Spectator review of the book, Curiosity and Its Twelve Rules for Life, by author F.H. Buckley, the reviewer, Shmuel Klatzkin, relates a story told by “novelist and prankster,” Ken Kesey. In that story, Kesey recounted that his dad upbraided him once, declaring to him, “Your problem is that you keep trying to …
Our traditional English language is a marvelous gift handed down to us over the centuries…but, are we “losing her?”
“Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true”…and my dream came true, the day I flew Betty Jane
Yogi Berra once famously said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” And on this day, April 17, 1956, I came to a fork in the road…
What’s in a symbol. How does a proud bald eagle stir such deep feelings for our “land of the free, the home of the brave?”
For many, today, the world seems to be coming apart at the seams, a frightening place, fraught with uncertainties. But sometime around 1848, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a French critic, journalist, and novelist, penned the words “plus ca change, plus c’est la même chose,” usually translated as “the more things change, the more they stay the …
Just a man and his horse, under a big sky. Don’t fence me in…where I always long to be.
