Tag: Monument Avenue

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t are winnowed out.” Ashley Wilkes, in Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell I told some friends yesterday that, while the thought of living off …

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What Then, Is the Answer?

During these last 47 years in solitary confinement, I’ve been bingeing on some movies. I rarely watch live TV so pretty much everything is streaming. I’ve been through The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Hunger Games (a little too much like current events), Harry Potter, and I’m now on to Star Trek. This …

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