Sep 3, 20242 min read
With Love, From Ringo in Nashville
What do you get when an ex-Beatle travels to Nashville and sits in with the finest group of Country musicians this side of the...
What do you get when an ex-Beatle travels to Nashville and sits in with the finest group of Country musicians this side of the...
Throughout history rivers have been the lifeline of civilization. In "Rivers of Power" author and geophysicist Laurence Smith shows how...
Book Review: "The Promised Land" by Barak Obama Reading "The Promised Land" by Barak Obamana is tantamount to taking a semester of...
The miracle of "The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions", is that they happened at all. The surprise of these sessions is that the music is...
I have read several books about the Civil War, but "Vicksburg" by Donald L. Miller, is the absolute best. In fact, if you want to...
Had the Marx Brothers been a Rock-n-Roll band, they would have been The Who, the edgy, mischievous British Blues-Rock band that in the...
While their names may not roll off the tongue with the alacrity of John, Paul, George and Ringo--the Fab Four Beatles--in their day John, Paul, James and Peter, were something of a Fab Four themselves, who transformed an obscure Jewish sect into a national religion that stretched to the far reaches of the Roman Empire. John, Paul, James and Peter. Who were they? JOHN was Jesus' "beloved disciple". He would write the fourth Gospel (The Gospel of John), and the Book of Revela
The Three Wise Men of yore were, of course, the Three Wise Men from the east, who came to Bethlehem bearing gifts for the new-born Jesus. Little is known about these three, who they were, nor exactly where they came from. The Three Wise Men that I'm referring to we do know a great deal about, and the gifts they offered were so much more precious than gold, frankincense, and myrrh. These three came bearing the greatest gift of all--divine Love. I'm referring to Jesus of Na
THEY WERE THE ODD COUPLE of the American Revolution: John Adams, short, stout, emotional, impatient, vain, highly opinionated, and...
It wasn't as melodramatic as the family-feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, in "Romeo and Juliet", and Modena certainly couldn't...
Stephen Breyer, served as a Justice on the Supreme Court for 28 years (1994-2022). He has written nine books about the law; this is his...
George Washington, a hedgehog? You bet. You've heard the old adage, "The fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows One Big...
Chester Burnett, a.k.a. Howlin' Wolf, was a musical genius. Yes, as much a musical genius as Ludvig von Beethoven. The reason he didn't...
Compared with beer or wine, coffee hasn’t been around all that long. Beer dates back to 5,000 BC. Discovered growing in Ethiopia, it was...
The most quoted book at the 1789 Constitutional Convention was the King James Bible. Indeed, the very ideals that exalted the Declaration...
Gary, a friend from my college days (we were roommates) who lives in California, was dissatisfied with the service he was getting from...
The Clotilda was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving in Mobile Bay, July 9, 1860...
After graduating from college, I worked in a retail store for a large company. There seemed to be few prospects for advancement, so I...
The key to understanding Sidney Poitier's stellar film career, is that he was willing to walk away from a large movie contract, rather...
Who knew? Who knew that the Gothic Cathedrals of Europe, so deeply associated with christianity, were in fact inspired by Islamic...