“The best left” was a phrase I heard often as a boy. Usually it was muttered by my grandfather and not in the most charitable of tones. ...

Did you ever get the feeling that that you’ve become an extra in someone else's movie? For almost two years no...

Bobby Sands, MP, made many poetical statements while interned in Long Kesh. With apologies to Bobby this is the essence ...

I was staying a dozen or so miles from New Haven when my laptop crashed. After a fruitless couple of hours on the phone ...

BB King’s of Times Square closed its doors recently and another concert venue bit the dust.  There was once a string...

            He was the most charismatic man I’ve ever met. Even before he “made it,” he cut a figure the length and brea...

I had occasion to be in Madrid recently and took the opportunity of visiting the legendary Prado Museum. I went with...