A Classic from Poland – “The Doll” by Boleslaw Prus
The most unusual book in my reading universe this year has to be the 1890 Polish classic, The Doll (“Lalka”) …
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Looking for the Dead: Bertrand Tavernier Takes a Look at WW I
Some 350,ooo French soldiers in WW I have never been found. Is that possible? With almost one million five hundred …
“The Imitation Game” Could Be A Better Imitation
There’s an interesting irony to the title of the new movie about Alan Turing and the breaking of the German …
It All Matters
We got one of the best seasonal cards, ever, this week. Simple black text on a fir-green card. It all …
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War
From my daily reading of the news coming from Washington D.C. and around the world I had thought it would …
San Francisco Storms
San Francisco Bay, Storms, Photos
Bird Life — The Thing With Feathers
It’s not all war, all the time on this blog. I do take breaks. Last month it was for a …