A Line Across Humanity A few weeks ago, when I promised to be a more regular presence here on the blog, I mentioned how much more d...

Too Soon For School A Summer Book List Humans have complained about change for as long as time has been unwinding.  I do my best ...

Big News and Big Dogs No one goes to the Shetland Isles by mistake.  People don't stop by on the way to someplace else; it'...

How Similar We All Look When the flame-eaten spire of Notre Dame fell yesterday it caused a pain of grief as sharp as any death.  P...

No Matter Where You Are The first time I boarded a plane my Father looked me straight in the eye and told me, "If you need me,...

Books At Christmas In recent years Americans have become inundated with television ads for new cars during the festive season.  We...

Moving Forward "The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.  If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys ...

Better Angels "To know what has come before is to be armed against despair.  If the men and women of the past, with all their ...

These Are Not Normal Times      I have written this blog for over ten years.  I have written about dogs, about seasons, about boo...

London Books My impressions of London were formed by turning the pages of books.  So much so that when I traveled there for the fir...