3 Days in Asheville
Two invitations, one to a tournament at the historic Biltmore Forest Golf Club; the other, to stay with friends Rosemary and Jerry Crow, …
The Pentagon
The Pentagon, a History: the Untold Story of the Wartime Race to Build the Pentagon–and to Restore It Sixty Years Later, by Steve …
Commonwealth
The oranges on the cover of this book signify two watershed events inside. Oranges picked from the Keatings’ backyard trees, juiced and mixed …
Inauguration Days
My life can be measured in four-year chunks–high school, college, graduate school, and Presidential terms. I was 10 months old when Roosevelt …
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Last Friday evening Leslie, David and I attended an hour-long jazz tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Zach Bartholomew’s Trio at the Coral …
Rising Women
Women who were good at math had few job opportunities in 1939, when this book begins. A few lucky ones became human computers with …
Alexander Hamilton
As soon as I “met” Alexander Hamilton as a statue while Celebrating Independence in Philadelphia, I began reading Alexander Hamilton, the 2005 biography by Ron …
Walking the C&O Towpath
Kathalina Stein and I have walked together every Tuesday morning (whenever we’re both in town) for the last 17 years. We have …