Wishing all who celebrate a Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year.
This is my 500th post. Never thought I'd keep this blog around this long.
The Light in the Piazza
The Opera: It is the 1950's and Margaret Johnson has brought her adult daughter Clara to Italy, to re-visit some of the sites that Ma...
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*Part of my continuing blog series leading up to the 250 th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis in February 2014. In October...
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Every year I read other people's "best of" lists but I've never done one myself. I'm a little ambivalent about the wor...
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Since it is Independence Day I thought I would republish a story from long ago. This is the story of the family of my paternal grandmother w...
