Month: February 2017

Whether you ever go to Paris or not (and I hope you do go), you should read The Parisians by Graham Robb.  The book relates the stories of Parisians, some famous, some not so famous, who have contributed to the history of this great city.  One vignette is about Héricart de Thury, the man who… Continue reading Wine in Line and a Billion Bones →

Although we lived right on the Ohio River, in Wellsburg, West Virginia, our dad was not a fisherman.  He wasn’t a hunter either, but that’s another story.  Somehow my brother Mark became a fisherman, of sorts.  Maybe he had some friends who fished.  Probably they just liked hanging out on the forbidden riverbank, I know… Continue reading The Worms Turn →