Chapter 3: Wrist Watch (1974)

By Alyssa Lindley Kilzer Richard and Robert The winding mountain road came to a stop twenty feet back from the Continue reading →

On Madiba

An influential man’s death is always a time for reflection. Nelson Mandela, Madiba, was by every measure an influential man Continue reading →

Chapter 2: Windows (1974)

By Alyssa Lindley Kilzer Richard & Elmer Junior Richard got out of his car and leaned into the hot metal Continue reading →

What we lost 50 years ago, today

Fifty years ago today, a man was shot and killed in Dallas; one man lost his life, a country lost Continue reading →

Chapter 1: Out Loud (1973)

Old ELMER The house needed the woodstove for this kind of cold, but it wasn’t burning because there was no Continue reading →

Afghanistan: The Graveyard of Unlearned Lessons

In reviewing Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple, and Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History Continue reading →

On thirteen years of Bostonian success

On Tuesday night the Boston Red Sox won their third World Series in ten years. I have been jaded, along Continue reading →

Conservatism in America

Last Sunday afternoon, during a two-hour drive, I started looking for the Patriots game on the radio somewhere just west Continue reading →