A pandemic with no end in sight. Riots in the streets. Families and friendships torn apart by rank political partisanship. + more
A pandemic with no end in sight. Riots in the streets. Families and friendships torn apart by rank political partisanship. + more
The 2020 winners of Nikon’s annual Small World photomicrography competition have been announced. Prepare to be dazzled. Why are some + more
AMONG THE ROCKS Robert Browning Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets + more
In 1972, my home town of Chewelah, Washington was recognized as an All-America City. As a kid, I remember it + more
In an otherwise interesting essay reflecting on nearly two decades of running a record label, Alec Hanley Bemis offers up + more
Happy Monday! I’ve put together some interesting reads to help you start your week off right. You’re welcome. Elle Hunt + more
I’m not exactly one of those guys with his finger on the pulse of, well…anything, really. So naturally I’m a + more
I feel much the same about presidential debates as I do golf: It’s time that I’ll never, ever get back. + more
Today is the first day of autumn. Or, as I like to refer to it, that day in September when + more
If Al Franken drawing a map of the United States from memory can’t bring us all together as a nation, + more
I may have mentioned that I’m reading my way through The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro’s (currently) four-volume biography + more
Speaking of music (see yesterday’s post for some of the year’s notable recordings), winners of the 2019–20 Ernst Bacon Memorial + more
I think we can all agree that, by and large, 2020 has sucked wet dog fur. BUT. There’s been some + more
“Rather than a neat evolutionary line,” writes Florence Hazrat, “imagine punctuation developing as a rhizome, a horizontal mesh of practices, + more