Looking Back on Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro Rainforest, 1967 Just today, I received a Facebook message from an old friend, Mary,…
Mythic Moments: The Arrival of the SS Excambion at New York Harbor, January, 1941
This is an older post, but one that I love to revisit as a way…
Love and Do What You Will…
St. Augustine of Hippo, a figure often remembered by young Catholics for his…
Donald Hall: One Road
(Photos by Peter Zelei/istockphoto and John Robert Shepard) This happened across my internet desk one…
Putting Together My Father’s Research With The Photos: West Africa 1963-64
Balafon performance in the streets of Conakry, Guinea. ©1963 Emile Snyder Among the…
Marginalia: Kissing Snails
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could publish our novels with such lovely marginalia? There…