I could never be a happy idiot, to borrow a phrase from a Jackson Browne lyric. It does not take genius to see the abject sorrow all around. Much is just bad luck. Parents usually do the best they can raising their kids. Often though they make crucial mistakes and the child matures to…
We visited Huber’s Orchard and Winery in Starlight, Indiana. This is a 7th generation farm that started with 80 acres in 1843. Huber’s now is 600 acres growing fruits and vegetables, the largest producer of grapes in Indiana. We left the dogwoods behind in Kentucky and crossed the Ohio River into the hilly Indiana farm…
Louisville Kentucky, on the Ohio River is a Southern town. Strictly speaking during the Civil War it was a border state. The citizens of Kentucky had sympathies on both sides. Still it was a slave holding state. Present day aspects of Southern culture remain. Almost every where you look there is remembrance of the…
We are in Louisville Kentucky. It’s a week before the running of the Derby. The town is in festival mode, special events are in progress, Mother Nature is doing her best with pleasant weather. The sidewalks are crowded on Bardstown Road. Our AirBnB is just a around the corner. I found a spot at…
Lynching Victims Memorial in Montgomery Alabama. For the full story CLICK HERE. How could we have waited so long to do this? Why are we STILL OPPRESSING people of color? How can we exercise power and authority, but no responsibility? Is this the way things have to be, the will of the god, are…
IV Time and the bell have buried the day, The black cloud carries the sun away. Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematis Stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray Clutch and cling? Chill Fingers of yew be curled Down on us? After the kingfisher’s wing Has answered light…
At last the days are warming in the Mid-West. Its beginning to feel like spring. The buttercups are sprouting and a few are in bloom by the road. After breakfast at Taste of Paris Cafe on Sunday morning we traveled to Wheaton to see our children and grand children. To visit together on a…
I was not there. A prior commitment oblidged me to be in Chicago on Friday evening. At that time the grand opening of The Long Grove Confectionary store and the adjoining sister company, the Long Grove Coffee Company was held in splendid fashion by Towner Green. The weather gods smiled upon the event and…
Mid April. I anticipate with longer days warm weather will call forth the green of grass and the tender shoots of daffodils. This weekend was a setback. A mega storm of snow and ice swept across the plains state. Minnesota received fifteen inches in some parts. The Star Tribune called it a historic blizzard. …
Comment was made in the course of our discussion of the Iliad, of the great cultural differences in the late-bronze age status of women, and that of our own time, three millennia in the future. Consider the character of Briseis, taken and given as a spoil of war to Achilles consequent to the razing…
