I don't think I peeled a clove of garlic until I was at least 21. It wasn't because I didn't…
Some authors are blessed with illustrators who enhance their work with the distinction of their own. So it was in…
Before the Charge The night is still and the air is keen, Tense with menace the time crawls by, In…
There are pockets of Poughkeepsie that still have a rural look and feel. Cows graze and the corn is ripe…
I'm not giving anything away by quoting the deep irony of the last lines of Saplings: Turns you over, don’t…
I once worked in a school where the librarian arranged the non-fiction by the color of the spine. It made…
Near the beginning of George Orwell's 1984 our hero Winston Smith attends a rally at the Ministry of Truth where…
The first day of my new life as an idle good-for-nothing superannuated coffin-dodger (my brother's description of retirees) coincides with…
Human apathy is the greatest calamity of all. I have heard many extraordinary presentations and speeches at NAIS Annual Conferences…
Unless the mass of workers are to be blind cogs and pinions in the apparatus they employ, they must have…