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Sunday, June 12, 2022

Civil Rights Baby: My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism by Nita Wiggins. Book 21 of 2022

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Civil Rights Baby: My Story of Race, Sports, and  Breaking Barriers in American Journalism by Nita Wiggins Nita Wiggins was born in Georgia...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Ukrainian in Paris Talks About Her Family

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  I walked around a corner onto Boulevard St. Germain and saw a sign saying that the little park behind the fence had been part of a refugee...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Rome-ing The World, from Kansas, to Iraq, to Kosovo, to the Eternal City

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  Melanie Sanders Meier The last time I saw Melanie Sanders Meier in person was in 2009 when we were both deployed to Camp Adder, Iraq.  She...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy by Hannah Arendt: Book 20 of 2022

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This book is on my list because it was the subject of the Virtual Reading Group at the Hannah Arendt Center for politics and Humanities at...
Thursday, June 2, 2022

Le grec ancien facile par Marie-Dominique Poree: Book 19 of 2022

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For more than a year, I have read this little book a page or two at a time.  It is a review of Ancient Greek grammar for Francophone student...

A Veteran Talks About His Family at the Dick Winters Leadership Memorial

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Dick Winters Leadership Memorial, Ephrata, Pennsylvania On Memorial Day I visit the grave and the memorial statue of Major Dick Winters who ...
Monday, May 30, 2022

The Netanyahus: A Funny Novel About A Job Interview Gone Very Wrong. Book 18 of 2022

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 A couple of weeks ago, I listened to an interview of American novelist  Joshua Cohen on the Ha'aretz Weekly podcast. Host Allison Ka...