This poem is posted with appreciation, and apologies, to T.S. Eliot. Let us flee then, by and bye when the worldweb is spread out for you and I like civility anesthified inside a screen. Let us glow, through webbish wicked wires with muttering retreats to restless nights of tickee-tack deceits …

One hundred and fifty-six years ago, the British poet Matthew Arnold composed a profound poem, Dover Beach. …

Many and many a year ago in a kingdom across the sea My King was raised with thorny crown on a cross at Calvary. His miracle resurrecting life changed our course of history. Then many and many a year went by until nine-seventy-three AD, when Edgar was anointed king by…

On May 12, 1937, King Charles’ grandfather, GeorgeV, was crowned King of Britain. Here’s a glimpse into the Times of London special Coronation edition, May 20, 1937: His Coronation day in London was the setting for my third novel, Smoke, published in 2014. Here’s a description, from an American perspective…

Crime don’t pay in Boston. These people love their city; they love their traditions. They love their marathon. They love their survivors.They even love the US citizens who did not survive. The people of Boston and other Marathon visitors were the key to solving the crime that took place at…

In his masterpiece song about the latter half of the 20th century, Billy Joel concluded his sixth verse with a reference to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. We Didn’t Start the Fire In a dramatic crescendo, Billy finished that verse about the early 1960’s with this line: “JFK blown away: What…

Gone, gone, the lifetime done oh no, not done yet but this one life, yes, this one done getting what we can get. Done doing what we can do oh but there’s something yet ‘though the days be few just so they won’t forget Surely there’s a lesson or two …

When Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was being nominated, there was a Senate Judiciary hearing in which our Senators were considering the nomination. The testimony of a former acquaintance, Blasey Ford, was controversial. …

To put it plain and simple, the weaponization began when a grand Loser, formerly a winner, summoned up a mob of fascizing former patriots to steal the Presidency by invading our Congress on January 6, 2021. After the insurrectioning rebels had attempted to steal the election, they fell into the…