Hono­lulu after Pearl Harbor: A report published for the first time, 71 years later

I stepped off the plane in Austin and was immediately hit with a wall of heat… I wondered if we hadn’t taken a wrong turn there and ended up a bit closer to the sun than I had wanted. Funny, after all my  [more...]

Eugene Roche was one of those actors we all know — the kind with the familiar face, but the unknown name. Roche died last week of a heart attack at 75. He’s a face we have all seen, but even when reading a  [more...]

How does one express solidarity with the people of London without using rhetoric, without politics, and without being maudlin? I love London and its people, and I as a long time Anglophile, I feel a deep sense of  [more...]