Author: Dan Hull

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel […]

Best thing about January 2022? My friend Henry Tarrio gets out of jail.

“Best day’s work I ever did was marry your Mom.” Obituary in Ohio, Indiana and Florida papers December 31, 2012: John D. […]

Still Smoldering in 3 Languages. Cannes Film Festival 2001 Circa 1975

The Governess, 1739, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) In case your Governess never told you, you’re from Utah, or you were stoned all seven […]

Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, est. 1864. Indiana’s first free public high school. Kurt Vonnegut, Class of “˜40, wrote: “… my dream of […]

My street in Logan yesterday morning on the way to work. Washingtonians remind me of southern city Brits. They like ancient stone […]

“The Day of The Dead” 1859 William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Bring back talking about all of the ideas. Even the older or uncomfortable or at times shocking ideas. The ones we thought […]

“Return from the Harvest,” William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1878 Cummer Museum and Gardens Jacksonville, Florida

So go away, okay? Look, I didn’t buy any Candy this year–and when the neighborhood kids ring my doorbell tonight, I’ll pretend […]

Your business, your rules. Get off your knees. Demand things of yourself–and of others. (1) What did you do this past week? […]

South Africa’s Charlize Theron is now in our Pantheon. Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, circa 2004.

JDH II and sisters Hazel, Helen & Hortense. Mountain Grove, MO. Circa 1915.

Happy 50th Anniversary to the IHHS Class of “˜71. I look forward to seeing you all in the Spring of 2022. Photo: […]

The Proud Boys are an all-male group that refuses to apologize for Western civilization “which built the modern world.” What in God’s […]