Welcome to Family Histories, a series of guest posts by some of my favorite bloggers in which they explore family . . . and history. The families and the histories are sometimes the writers’ own and sometimes not. Joining us today to share his fascinating study of genetic memory is the writer PAUL WHITE. Please…
Tag: Writers
Fiction: Strong Medicine
Miss Peckham’s mistake was sympathizing with a drunk.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. – Aldous Huxley
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
– Aldous Huxley
Researching the Past as Part of a Traveling Road Show
LINK: PART FOUR OF AN INTERVIEW WITH ME ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE!
ART: Rain Storm, Union Square by Childe Hassam
“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.” Gustave Flaubert
“One turns to me his appealing eyes- poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.” Walt Whitman
GIVING A FACE TO CIVIL WAR STATISTICS CIVIL WAR GRAVES LEAKING TOXINS Beat! beat! drums!-blow! bugles! blow! Make no parley-stop for no expostulation, Mind not the timid-mind not the weeper or prayer, Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let not the child’s voice be heard, nor the mother’s entreaties, Make even the…
QUOTE: “. . .the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master and then relapse into it again.” Alexis de Tocqueville
“I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives. Each of them, living apart, is as a…
