Month: November 2023

This is William Beard Hull (1837-1929), my Virginia-born great-great grandfather who in 1866 named his first born son John Daniel Hull. Bill […]

Class acts get harder to find. She is one of them.

Nancy Susan Hull McCracken (1925-2023). Family hero. Born Springfield, MO. Died Chicago, IL. Photo: DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, circa 1947.

Slave Owner. Womanizer. Rebel. Founding Father. Writer. Inventor. Sage. Wit. Polymath. All-Round Badass.

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) Thank you for Free Verse, young man.

McCrae in 1912 Veterans Day””or Poppy Day in the U.K. and Europe””is always on November 11. We Americans on Veterans Day honor […]

Can we stop feeding the Monster every time we get the chance? Some legal memos, cases summaries and strategy documents “you can […]

There’s no point in being Irish if you don’t know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. I guess […]

Or just happy to see me? Judges should not have “constituents.” But in most American states, they still do. And there is […]

John Keats (1795-1821) by William Hilton, 1822 Oil on canvass 25″ x 20″ National Portrait Gallery, London

Viking dinners are awesome and rad. Let’s bring those back.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825″“1905) The Day of the Dead, 1859 This is All Souls Day.

Best book ever written about November 2.

Speaking of Halloween and the musical occult. Cincinnati, Ohio. Saw my first live rock show here in summer of 1969. The late […]

Fra Angelico, 1424, The National Gallery, London

Today is All Saint’s Day, a Christian (here, read Roman Catholic) feast day. It is also known as All Hallows Day, Hallowmas […]