Lee won Gettysburg. Then he crushed the Army of the Potomac at Union Mills. Now Lee sits on the doorstep of Washington DC, just three short miles from capturing the Union capital and ending the war.
Fiction (obviously), but very well written and entert…
This was one of those ” I owe my old record company another album record,” but it actually come off quite well. Mellencamp took some of his favorites and redid them with the current band in a mostly stripped down style. It’s sort of a John Mellencamp u…
Scooter, the animated baseball that explains stuff to kids, would be more useful if you would actually start the All-Star game BEFORE 9 PM EST. It may be summer, but 8 year olds aren’t going to be up at midnight to watch the end of game.
My kid bailed …
Beth and Ed are both waxing eloquent on baseball and books.
Certainly, no other sport has generated as much written word as baseball. (football actually brings up more results – but soccer is mixed into those results so I think my statement stands)
As …
Greg Mitchell, best known for non-fiction political writing, delivers a fun tale of the ups and downs in coaching his son’s Little League team.
I could have written this book. In fact I did. Browse through the basketball coaching, and baseball archives…
One page one of this book I learned the 8th Rule of Travel – Never pass a bar with your name on it.
Better advice has never been spoken.
English travel writer (although he is of Irish heritage) Pete McCarthy spends a couple of weeks wandering aimlessly…
This story about a kid with a perfect SAT, community service, National Honor Society, blah blah blah, yet still wasn’t accepted into Harvard, MIT, or Rice, is interesting, but not for the reasons the author intended. I find this obsession with crafting…
Fred First has penned a nice piece on slow living. I was just commenting to Michelle this weekend that I’m really looking forward to a summer with nowhere I “have” to be. Cub Scouts is done, Little League has a week or two to go, Girl Scouts will be do…
I wandered over to the new World War II Memorial on my lunch hour today. As a physical structure, I can take it or leave it. I’m not sure it really captures the essence of The Greatest Generation. (No pics – it was a spur of the moment thing). But I do…
I downloaded the new Great Big Sea album from Itunes. It’s wonderful. Two traditional Irish tunes, and 11 Irish tinted pop-folk songs. These guys are great. It’s almost enough to make me want to move to Canada.
Did I just say that? That’s not true. The…
