Welcome to almost-spring! I write this with gray skies, the temperature just above freezing, and rain and small hail alternating against my window. But outside that window, pushing up amidst the leavings of last year’s garden are four-inch daffodils and eight-inch daylilies. I take heart. Once again, I undertook a survey of cultural and literary … More Cultural and Literary References in The Solitary Horseman
My grandpa’s fourth grade reader changed my notions of what children read at the turn of the last century. I don’t know of any fourth grade, mine included, that assigns Daniel Defoe to nine and ten year olds. Emilie Loring and my grandfather, although a generation apart, both studied the classics as a matter of … More What the Children Read
“Hardly anyone remembers Steve Jobs anymore, but in the age of electronic computing, he was iconic.” This introduction hasn’t been written yet, but it will be. Fame is fleeting. The heroes of one generation, however high they fly, are unknown to the next. Tell me something about the life of Johannes Gutenberg. And then Petrache … More Fame is Fleeting; Appreciation Doesn’t Have to Be
The Emilie Loring Collection 