“This is the United States of America. It isn’t Nazi Germany.” – Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), in an interview on MSNBC, about the Trump...

“This is the United States of America. It isn’t Nazi Germany.” – Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), in an interview on MSNBC, about the Trump...

Here’s a prediction. When the history of the Obama Administration is written, the admittedly monumental screw ups with the health...

One wonders why Ireland, a country with 4.5 million people, has produced so many of history’s greatest men – yes, mostly men – of...

The Bard, we think, wrote his 29th sonnet around about 1592 at a time when he was deeply troubled by something. Perhaps it was the...

In celebration of National Poetry Month – I love that poetry month coincides with the start of the baseball season – a great little poem...

My lanyard wearing mom was born on this day in 1922. I miss her every day. The Lanyard by Billy Collins The other day I was ricocheting...

When I saw the story that Idaho’s State School Superintendent Tom Luna had pulled a pop history quiz on lawmakers on the legislature’s...

It is the birthday of the poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg born January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois. Twice winner of the...

For me the answer is easy – W.B. Yeats. In December 1923, nearly 86 years ago, Yeats won the Nobel Prize for literature and made much of...

On All Souls Day, a remembrance of those we love and live among us in memory, two poems by John Updike and W.B. Yeats. I can’t get this...

On All Souls Day, a remembrance of those we love and live among us in memory, two poems by John Updike and W.B. Yeats. I can’t get this...