Odd How History Repeats Itself by Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. Clearly, I’m not a history buff nor pretend to be. However, last night I watched a couple of history programs on PBS. All of which by the way, are incredibly interesting and well worth the view. The first show was The Roosevelts: A Film by Read more
The Whip and the Carrot By Angie Littlefield Many of us, when we reach “a certain age,” want to write about our family. We do it for several related reasons: we want to set things down before memories are lost, we want to hand down our family history to the next generation, or we want Read more
Plagues and Problems: Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Years by Stu O’Connor Memento Mori (“Remember, you must die”). The awareness of inevitable death has been a concern of philosophers since at least Socrates. And not just death’s inevitability but its potential suddenness. As Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations: “You could leave life right now.” Read more
Histories and Stories of Truth by Lucy E.M. Black For many in our generation, the word history has, for the most part, often seemed rather benign. History was a subject taught in schools with battered textbooks and an endless droning of facts and dates. At the time, it did not occur to us that what Read more
