Time Stands Still in Pompeii
I walked the path of gladiators, sailors, and shopkeepers from 79 C.E. Image of the author, Crystal A. Walker in Pompeii, Italy Entering the gates…
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Lyon Family Reunion
I wrote this in 2011. The reunion is always the first weekend in August at the Pennsylvania State Park, Parker Dam. We haven’t gone in…
A Review of ‘Ten Popes Who Shook the World’
Image: Yale University Press If you are interested in the history of the popes of the Catholic Church, the reading options can be daunting, and…
Is It Too Late to Touch the Dome?From 2014:
Saturday, August twenty third, I finished the interview with the delightful Dorothy. She needed to head back to New York and I needed to buy…
Who Invented Scrabble?
An Entrepreneur from the Depression Era The grid of perfectly scaled squares hinting at an underlying respect for structure, the meticulously planned numbering system, the…
What Can Be Done To Resist The Abuse Of Political Power?
This essay was written and entered into the 2022 Hubert Butler Essay Prize. Due to competition T&C, it could not be published until now but…
Original Art
He stepped back and drank it all in with awe in his eyes, it was finally done. It had been a cloudless autumn night when…
Origins of the Game
Men sauntered from the fieldsand baselines emerged from the grass a fallen branchfound utilityin the aligned knuckles of two grasping hands and an old scrap…
She Found a Way to Live
She Found a Way to Live How happily ever after came to be Photo by Alice Alinari on Unsplash There once was a lady fair…
The End Of History; The Liberal Lie Promoting Conservatism
Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges.– George Carlin “The End of History” is the term coined by political scientist Francis Fukuyama…