When the hurley burley’s done, When the Battle’s lost and won—MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 1 Three women walk into a bakery and ask for a two-tiered wedding cake. The owner pulls out a catalogue of designs, and they select one…
Category: Stories, Music and Film
Famous Common People I Have Known, Zlatko, Slavka and Kolya
At right of this photo is a fellow I intend to include in my “Famous Common People’ series some day, for he was one of the most extraordinary men I ever knew and symbolized the kind of “common man” the…
Diagramming Our First Revolution, The “Redcoats” Are Coming, Again
The War for Independence, the Revolutionary War, was not a spontaneous fire, set by a bolt of lightning. I don’t know how, or even if, school children are taught the story of America’s leap for freedom in 1776. I doubt…