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Finding Repose

Wallace Stegner’s novel, Angle of Repose, is a powerful portrait of pioneers in the Western United States in the years 1876-90, during …

Heart of a Woman

Florence Price was the first Black woman composer to have a work performed by a major symphony orchestra. The Chicago Symphony played her …

The Hill We Climb

After the appalling assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, I was worried about what might happen two weeks later at …

New Year’s Greetings

Our family greeted 2021 with gratitude for good health and with high hopes for getting vaccinations soon. We hope that you, too, …

Florida Evil Exposed

An evil institution festered in Florida for more than a hundred years. The Dozier School for Boys in Marianna was founded in …

Mar-a-Lago, Real and Imagined

On January 29, 2014, long before any of us had any idea that Donald Trump would be elected President, my Quail Ridge …

Persistent Women

My initial attraction to Jane Kirkpatrick’s novel, Something Worth Doing, was the author’s name; my middle name is Kirkpatrick. Examining the book …

Nina & Alicia

2020! This crazy year has disrupted my lifelong fascination with music by European men of the 18th & 19th centuries and schooled …

Autumn Songs

In October 2019 I heard a lovely piece on NPR, Chanson d’Automne (Autumn Song) by British composer Stephen Reynolds. I happened to …

Honey & Juba Dance

Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) composed two pieces, Honey and Juba Dance, that intrigue me. Both are from a suite, “In the Bottoms,” published in Music …

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