What Do I Know?

[You'll figure out pretty quickly, I think, that I enjoyed reading this book.  I wanted to read the next chapter as soon as I finished t...

Since President Elect Trump tells more lies than truths, it seems appropriate for him to have fictional cabinet members to match the fiction...

A friend sent me a link to an audio program about the music of the Holocaust - music written and performed by concentration camp musicians. ...

This is a truly touchy topic all around.  I'm listing here some of the aspects that I feel are critical to understand (no, be aware of ...

I've avoided posting about the Israeli-Gaza war for a number of reasons. (The one exception is this post recommending folks watch the B...

 I try not to write about things getting saturation coverage if I don't think I have some insight no one else has shared.  Furthermore, ...

From Ursula LeGuin's No Time To Spare : "It's been two months since I blogged.  Considering that I am on the eve of my eighty-f...

[After sleeping on this, I've added a few thoughts on Crows are White .  They are [bracketed]]. Got to the museum a little late (gave up...

The Story of Gósta Berling  by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlof is the story of people in rural Sweden in the late 1800s.  People deal with...