Here is E.L. Alban’s paean for the complexity and richness of words those “filigrees of language …. like seedlings on the furrows of a field / that blossom into gardens / on the expanses of the soul.” Alban presents twenty-one... Read More

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. —Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science Man has looked to benevolent or malevolent supernatural forces for explanations of prosperity and... Read More

Katharine Hepburn once said “ If you survive long enough you’re revered—rather like an old building.“ The iconic actress certainly did survive—and then some—living to the age of 96 a fiercely independent outspoken dynamo and... Read More

‘The answers are a mystery. It’s in the searching that we even begin to recognize the questions.’ "Ethereal Madness" embraces one of the most dangerous and excruciating acts known to humankind which should be avoided whenever... Read More

The music arrived with images and therein laid its appeal…it was polished and primitive; it was lush and sensuous and eminently danceable. Here was an iconic bandleader and renowned percussionist like no other. who alternately thrived... Read More

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems if only we can find the political will. — Kofi Annan With a Nobel Peace Prize and an impressive list of diplomatic accomplishments the seventh Secretary-General of the United... Read More

I deserve what I am getting. —Last words of &193;ngel Maturino Reséndiz June 27 2006 Huntsville Texas The man dubbed The Railway Killer is a self-appointed Angel of Death whose victims’ homes back up to train tracks. He claims... Read More

1969 a Jewish honor student in the Bronx is a school newspaper editor the son of Holocaust survivors and the newest member of a Puerto Rican extortion gang. A strong inciting sequence puts a sixteen-year-old boy in a dilemma of possible... Read More