The American crown
What emanated from this American president is not fascism, as some are wont to believe, but monarchism. This president is [...]
What you can and cannot see
The highlight of my 2018 was a trip to France to commemorate the centenary of the World War I Armistice, [...]
The big toss of a small coin
My good friend Jyl put it to me well some years ago. “It’s like you don’t quite get America, and [...]
Last vanity
I never liked vanity, let alone its fairgrounds. Self-effacement governed my mood. Imagining an exuberantly selfish president like Donald Trump, [...]
The origins of a good “Crafternoon”
For columnist Lorien Menhennett, a love of paper can provide a relief from the world's at times troubling demands.
Yuletide spacemen
The year 1968 was a glutton for show-stopping events. Even 50 years later, its 12 tumultuous months contain events essential [...]
On the razor’s edge
Columnist and doctor Susan Levenstein once tried soothing the wife of a hospitalized man by getting inside information. The result proved disastrous.
A most awful circle
When troubles come, Shakespeare wrote in "Hamlet," they come not as single spies but in battalions. Some human beings are [...]
Piano keys and ponies
I learned to play piano from the woman we knew as Mrs. E. Her real name was Charlotte, and her [...]
