Author: Dan Hull

For Yanks, Memorial Day is about resolute if terrified men and women, innocents all, who died, often alone, horribly and in confusion, […]

The Dorks. The Dorks. Perfectionism is the downside of Type-A. While a great starting point, and wonderful instinct, the drive to get […]

Lips like cherries and the brow of a queen, Come on, flash it in my eyes. You said you dug me since […]

Hotel du Jeu de Paume, 54 Rue Saint-Louis en l’ÃŽle, 75004 Paris

Best day’s work I ever did was marrying your mom. – John D. Hull, III (May 17, 1928-December 27, 2012)

William Beard Hull (1837-1929). Born Augusta County, Virginia. In 1858, as oldest son, Bill, 21, on saddle horse served as his family’s […]

Melissa Jane Holt Hull (1845-1918). She was my great-great grandmother. Several living Hulls have a resemblance to Melissa. Born and died in […]

July 1, 1950 My mother–to us, “Mom”–was and is that mom all the other kids in the neighborhoods we lived in wanted […]

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. “• Oscar Wilde, The Importance […]

Cuff links, stick pin. When I step out I’m gonna do you in. –Gibbons, Hill and Beard Raoul Duke (1937-2005)

Artist Unknown. “Mexican David defeating a French Goliath.” – Time Magazine, May 5, 2010

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

O, look! the sun begins to rise, the heavens are in a glow; He shines upon a hundred fields, and all of […]

A celebrated Hollywood polymath–television producer, songwriter and award-winning author–Brian Neary has written a spy novel that’s “not like the others.” It’s a […]

This is what American Heroes look like. July 1, 1950. Miami. Both 22 years old. A jock. A fashion model. Both average […]

“Yes, they have more class.” –With apologies to the famous Fitzgerald-Hemingway exchange. Like their natural enemy the English, the French are of […]

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The Strip, Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood. As the fictional movie character John Milton said, law done right is a “backstage pass to […]