It’s the sand that gets to you. It blows in from the North Sea and gets in the sandwich you’re eating, inside your collar, up your nose,...

You’re riding with English F1 driver Jensen Button at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. He’s about to enter Eau Rouge, a combination...

Back in the day, no one was ahead of Colin Chapman on the F1 design curve. Beginning in 1960 with the Lotus 18, Chapman led the way and...

Summer, 1967. We're sitting inside my brother Charles' 356 Porsche Coupe, facing downhill into the darkness. Somewhere beyond the reach...

John Lennon was a child of the street, a tough guy who, as a youth, seldom backed down from a fight. But he had a sensitive side, too,...

Throughout the 1950s, Ray Charles scored big on the rhythm-and-blues chart, and closed out the decade with a number-one hit single, his...

The song opens with a sunburst of orchestra and full-pitched choir, like the opening of heaven itself. The song is "Answer Me, My Love"....

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Ludvig von Beethoven was a revolutionary. This was never more evident than in 1806, when his Third Symphony premiered in Vienna. What it...

Years ago, before I knew a thing about classical music, word was that new symphonies were no longer being composed. That, of course, was...

Beethoven was on a roll. He'd been through a fallow patch in which he hadn't composed much, but that was behind him now. His creative...

Pablo Casals was about 12-years old when he and his father– while rummaging through stacks of sheet music in a second-hand shop in...

Reading the book of Isaiah is particularly apropos during the Christmas Holidays, since it has so much to say about the coming of the...

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For such a short book (163 pages), this Bible commentary contains an amazing amount of information. The Bible was meant to be read by...

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What can William Shakespeare, the Elizabethan playwright of some of the most tragic and violent plays in the English language, teach us...

Seasons Greetings, The followings is “A Dish for a Poet” which is read aloud at our house this time each year, and never fails to amuse:...