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 …
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 …
Self-Examination
Protests this summer have challenged me to examine myself for deep-rooted, but obsolete mindsets. After all, I am a fourth-generation Texan, raised …
Grant: Then & Now
Why tackle a 1104-page book about a guy who died 135 years ago? Just because he is the General who won the …
Museums Matter
On March 9, 2017 I discovered how much museums can matter. At 6:30 that morning, I went online to get four timed …