Pan the Fourth
Chris Mackowski
Chicago Fire, 2012
God & Country
Flagpole at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial Lincoln City, IN
American Oracle and the dangers of American fanaticism
Reading David Blight’s American Oracle this weekend, I’ve noticed a subtle, cautionary note that keeps playing itself as an occasional undertone. It reminds me again why the study of history has something […]
Lake Erie Sunset
Review: Ann Beattie's Mrs. Nixon
When I think of useful literary devices, Pat Nixon is not the first thing that comes to mind. To be honest, I don’t have one single thing that comes to mind when […]
Review: A Blaze of Glory by Jeff Shaara
By the time I was two hundred pages into Jeff Shaara’s new novel—roughly halfway—I wondered how an author could write so much and say so little. It picked up, thankfully. I wouldn’t […]
Mother Nature
Remembering Abigail Adams
(Part two of two) “Remember the ladies,” Abigail Adams wrote in a letter to her husband during his service in the Continental Congress. And those words are how we now most often […]
Remembering John Adams
(Part one of two) When Abigail Adams died in late October, 1818, her husband, John, brokenhearted, said, “I wish I could lie down beside her and die, too.” Today, the two are […]
