Bluegrass is for everyone
Bluegrass Pride: Working to make sure that if you love bluegrass, then bluegrass loves you right back.
Author: DJB
The return of the septuagenarian sleuths
Richard Osman’s second installment of the Thursday Murder Club is just as delightful as the debut.
From the bookshelf: May 2026
Five books. Every month. A variety of topics from different genres. Here is the list from May 2026.
Our country has a lot of problems. Napping isn’t one of them.
Not so random thoughts on naps, billionaires, and corruption.
Observations from . . . May 2026
A summary of the May posts from the MORE TO COME newsletter.
Navigating small town dynamics
An early work in the Maigret series leads the reader to consider the human condition in all its shades.
With one foot in fiction and the other in memoir
Annie Ernaux has produced “a deceptively simple book and a profoundly disarming one.”
Medinas, mosques, masterpieces . . . Morocco (Part 2)
More remembrances of a recent week in Morocco while traveling with National Trust Tours.
Declaring our independence
How a declaration in 1776 became the genre-defining document that changed the world.
Medinas, mosques, masterpieces . . . Morocco (Part 1)
Remembrances of a recent week in Morocco while traveling with National Trust Tours.
MORE TO COME... 