Month: February 2023

The hour doesn’t matter. The gates never close. I daily walk by them during the workweek and maybe several times a day […]

By Jacques Fouquières, Hortus Palatinus, (before 1620). Heidelberg Palace, gardens and terracing.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine. He died on March 24, 1882 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Speaking of snow, which I like and D.C. so far has escaped this season, Kitzbühel is a medieval town in the province […]

(“Proclamation of the Republic”, April 24, 1916)

Clients pay for excellent–not for perfect. Excellent is way harder. Clients 99.5% of the time are not paying you to be perfect. […]

The purpose of this post””which we keep revising every time we post it””is simple. To keep humans alive during the 30 coldest […]

What strange phenomena we find in great cities. All we have to do is to stroll about with our eyes open. –Charles […]

Right altar. North side. The Church of the Epiphany (Episcopalian). Built 1844. 13th and G Streets, Northwest. United States.Senator Jefferson F. Davis […]

Lucy Liu Vogue China April 2009

My grandfather was born in 1900. He died in 1988. I still miss him. He grew up in the Ozarks in a […]

We no longer require humor in poets. We demand salvation. Of that commodity, Wordsworth still supplies the purest sort. –Mark Van Doren, […]

“Romeo and Juliet” from Act III parting scene, 1870, Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893). Oil on canvas, 53 × 37 inches, Delaware Art […]

My friend Ellen Bry, an actress and prime time television mainstay (St. Elsewhere, Dexter, Boston Legal, Monk, The Closer) for decades, also […]

Paul Fussell’s 1983 book “Class: A Guide through the American Status System.” No finer, funnier or painfully accurate book on the subject. […]

“In general men are stupid, vengeful, ungrateful, jealous, greedy for other people’s goods, abusive of their superiority when strong, and deceitful when […]

D. March 15, 44 BC. Above: Vincenzo Camuccini, Mort de Caesar, 1798.

If you have nothing nice to say, come sit by me. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth, d. 1980

John Henry Holliday in 1872. Graduation photo. He despised and, whenever he could, preferred to engage bullies. He had a knee-jerk resistance […]

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, […]

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. “” […]

A wise man’s country is the world. –Aristippus (435-360 BC), as quoted by Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers “There is hope. […]

Happy New Year. In 2023, and daily, stop apologizing for being open-minded, being outspoken, seeing all sides of an issue and being […]

Never Forget. Avenge Mickey O’Neil’s Mum.

Lawyering? A cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like […]