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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” -John Adams Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on November 12, 2011. At the end of the Victorian era, nationalistic literary movements sprang up in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The Irish movement and its writers are, of course, well known. But the same kind of Read more
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I was 20 years old when I saw my first NBA game in person, a Chicago Bulls game in 1981. The one Hall of Famer on that team was Artis Gilmore. Looking back now at that season, I can see that UNLV alum Reggie Theus had a great year with them and was an NBA Read more
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IIn my reading life, I have never been far away from Sherlock Holmes. I often and routinely re-read Dr. Watson’s wonderful accounts of the Great Detective’s cases. My habit over the decades has been to regularly return to Dr. Watson’s narratives, so lovingly collected by the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The world owes an Read more
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Here is a Monday-morning Classic from a team of Classics., Waylon, Willie, Chris, and Johnny. Enjoy! Read more
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I have mentioned here before that I prefer regular season baseball to playoff baseball. It largely comes down to the fact that I prefer the daily routine and ritual of following a team, a sport, across a 162-game series, to the high-pressure game-by-game pressure cooker of the playoffs. A baseball regular season is a narrative Read more
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Years ago I worked in a middle-school Media Center. Each year, the English teachers would declare a day as, “Poem in Your Pocket Day.” On that day staff and students were encouraged to carry around in their pockets, a favorite poem to share others. It began for me a habit of always having some of Read more
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“Even in the developed world, the effects of unjust structures and actions are all too apparent. Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.” ~Pope Francis Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on November 14, 2014. Winter has arrived in the North Country. The long darkness has begun. For the next 12 weeks, we will see little of the sun as we hurry from our cars to the various Read more
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Journey to the Center of the Earth starts with a quirky, excitable German professor named Otto Lidenbrock, who discovers an old Icelandic manuscript with a mysterious coded message. When his patient, good-natured nephew Axel helps to decode it, and they realize it describes a secret path leading deep into the Earth’s interior. Lidenbrock, being the kind of man Read more
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