1-Return He recalled Leitrim only as a weathered gray whistle stop sitting hard by the Atlantic, north of Portland and south of God knows what. There was a Twilight Zone aura to that little town, nestled in the crook of a coastal inlet where the broad Penobscot Bay spilled into the North Atlantic. It might … More Time Is An Island
While the younger generation of journalists have never known the world before man walked on the moon (not counting those who have decided that it never happened), they have also never known the world without the internet and no longer remember the world BS (Before Smartphone). … More Check the Freshness Date on Meat, Milk and News
What book are you reading right now? There are few contemporary novels I have read more than once, but I find myself deep in a third reading of Stephen King’s JFK assassination thriller. In part, I found it fascinating getting inside the life of the alleged killer, at least fictionally, but the real attraction for … More To me the best of Stephen King’s novels: 11/22/63
A story about this well-known quote by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ran recently in my childhood hometown paper, the Valley News in Hanover, NH. I took note for two reasons. First, I was there on “The Dartmouth Green” in front of the Baker Library when Eisenhower made these remarks. I was just four years old … More Don’t Join The Book Burners
HIGH GROUND by Richard Authier Lee is a Finalist in the Page Turner Awards screenplay competition in the “Book Adaptation Needed” category. … More Novel HIGH GROUND is a Finalist in London-based Page Turner Awards
Here are a few of the topics I might have blogged about this summer, but didn’t. Now that I look more closely, I don’t think I have much to do here. They write themselves. … More All Summer’s Blogs In A Day
Like audiobooks? Love them, even more, when they’re free? … More Free Audiobook Review Copies
A savant Angus heifer in Hartland, Vermont was captured on security video leading a breakout of forty-two of her cattle kin by deftly disconnecting the two lines of electrified fence keeping them enclosed. In twenty seconds. … More Bovine Brilliance Begets Befuddling Breakouts
On Feb 7, 2020 COVID-19 claimed the life of Li Wenliang, the doctor who first identified the novel virus and tried to warn his colleagues in Wuhan, China. For his troubles he was warned, threatened and then arrested by the Chinese government. … More COVID Whistleblower Remembered
Now, science has again been steamrolled by growing scientific data which tells us something many of us have known for years. Not only to some animals have a consciousness, but perhaps they all do. … More Thumbs Up For Animal Cognition
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