I recently finished reading Chad Harbach’s much-praised “The Art of Fielding.” I loved this book, and I was also frustrated by it.
The book is about a South Dakota kid, Henry Skrimshander, who is recruited to play baseball at Westish, a small fictional liberal arts college in Northern Wisconsin. The book focuses [...]
Not sure what the best practices are when you need to edit your social media assets? Over on the Web Editors Blog, I’ve just contributed a post on this very topic. Find out more about how to edit your social media sites and feeds.
Let’s be clear: Boston is very Irish no matter what day of the year it is. But if you are embracing the American take on St. Patrick’s Day, what better way to spend it than listening to music and enjoying a Guinness in one of Boston’s authentic Irish pubs?*
Well, picky Bostonians like myself [...]
Some enlightening statistics emerged from a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) report on who actually receives federal benefits. Some politicians would have us believe federal entitlements are all going to Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queens” who are sitting on the couch eating bonbons while honest citizens like ourselves work our tails off. (Never mind [...]
Right now I’m reading The Food of a Younger Land, Mark Kurlansky’s curated tour of the Works Progress Administration’s abandoned effort, America Eats!. This fascinating work intertwines Kurlansky’s history of the Federal Writers Project (FWP), mini-biographies of the FWP players, and passages from the America Eats! project that, unlike the FWP’s famous state [...]
Wayne Morse was a prescient man — a progressive who fought to prevent many of the national problems we are facing now. If only more had listened to him.
Read my new post about Wayne Morse, a principled and fearless US Senator from Oregon.
You’re sitting in a non-smoking train car when somebody tells you that you must get up and go stand in the smoking car. Why? Because a white person wants your seat. Even though you paid for it.
You resist. You’ve had it with second-class treatment, so you maintain your seat until you are physically removed [...]
I’ve been productive lately. Working on my novel, revisions, and writing a few freelance articles along the way:
Here’s one recent piece, about a merger gone awry:http://tinyurl.com/3jwlr6j
And another business article, on a local start-up’s new funding round: http://tinyurl.com/6bbzuns
Recently while perusing a magazine I came across this beautiful quote from British writer G. K. Chesterton:
You say grace before meals.
All right.
But I say grace before the play and the opera,
And grace before the concert and pantomime,
And grace before I open a book,
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