Veterans Day 2020
Another Veterans Day (see my post of November 14, 2018). But not like any other in my lifetime, or yours I would bet. Still a day to remember all of those who risked everything to do what was [...]
Veterans Day 2018
My son and I went to the Veteran’s Day parade on Sunday. It was a sunny, crisp, cusp of winter day in New York. As we stood at the corner of 28thStreet and Fifth Avenue, watching the many [...]
Dilettante…or just interested?
The other day, my friend Es reposted on Facebook a fado tribute to Lisbon and Carlos do Carmo, with a line or two sung by twenty or so great contemporary fado singers. As my family will tell [...]
