Category: History and Culture

Forty-plus years in the reading

Sunday, on a day where I felt I needed to take care of me, I set up a chair on the deck, ignoring how much work the deck and the yard read. I sat in the sun for five hours and finished the book.

That Sinking Feeling

I miss the stage, and the sea… Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee! E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me; Still all my song shall be nearer, my God, to Thee, Reported to be the last song the orchestra played as the RMS Titanic sank. On this day in 1912, the …

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