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Washington’s Character, Actions Bring Solace in Modern-Day America - 03/30/2020
Mary Oliver and Jack Gilbert - 04/02/2020
This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore - 04/09/2020
The Composite Nation by Fredrick Douglass - 04/16/2020
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose: Whitman, Walt. - 04/23/2020
A GENERATION OF SOCIOPATHS: HOW THE BABY BOOMERS BETRAYED AMERICA - 04/30/2020
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - 05/07/2020
Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters Part One - 05/21/2020
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY EDGAR LEE MASTERS PART TWO - 05/28/2020
Years of Horrors: 1968 and 2020 - 06/04/2020
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism - 6/18/2020
On Leadership: Part 1 - 06/25/2020
On Leadership: Part 2 - 07/02/2020
ON LEADERSHIP: PART 3 - 07/09/2020
'Gleanings' from Contemporary Poetry - 07/16/2020
Trump Meets Beowulf - 07/23/2020
'It Happens': John Lennon Said it Best - 07/30/2020
'How Democracies Die' & 'On Tyranny' - 08/06/2020
What Were Machiavelli's True Motives? - 08/13/2020
So, How Did the South Win the Civil War? - 08/27/2020
'Rocky Dies Yellow' & Other Readings in Contemporary American Poetry - 09/03/2020
First thing’s first: Let’s Leave Fantasyland Behind - 09/10/2020
Winthrop’s Lesson: Americans must love and care for one another - 09/17/2020
Mediated America Part One: Superman Comes to the Supermarket - 09/24/2020
Mediated America Part Two: Who Was Marshall McLuhan & What Did He Say? - 10/01/2020
Baseball & Poetry - It’s October and Major League Baseball Playoff Time! - 10/08/2020
1920 World Champion Cleveland Indians Rocked - 10/15/2020
Women, Baseball & Poetry - 10/22/2020
Leadership Part Four: Integrity: the Heart of Leadership - 10/29/2020
William Butler Yeats: ‘The Second Coming’ - 11/05/2020
‘What’s Become of the Common Good?’ - 11/12/2020
Happy Thanksgiving! Be Grateful for Hale, Child, too - 11/23/2020
Poetry in a Time of Plague - 12/03/2020
New Book on Presque Isle Belongs in Every Home - 12/09/2020
’Twas the night before Christmas… - 12/17/2020
‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ - 12/23/2020
‘Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, And Auld Lang Syne!’ - 12/31/2020
Reflections on a New Year, Worry, and Great Poetry - 1/07/2021
Heroic Centrism: How We Got To Now - 1/14/2021
Heroic Centrism: Rebuilding the Center - 1/21/2021
President Biden’s Inaugural Address And What We Share - 1/28/2021
The Paranoid Style in American Politics - 2/4/2021
Valentine Verse: The Pause That Refreshes - 2/11/2021
who was george washington - 2/18/2021
What's your favorite poem - 2/25/2021
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet, Activist, Cultural Icon - 3/4/2021
alone together: part one - 3/11/2021
ALONE TOGETHER: PART two - 3/18/2021
Retrospective: A Year of Book Notes - 3/25/21
Readers’ Favorite Poems: Part One - 4/1/21
READERS’ FAVORITE POEMS: PART two - 4/8/21
'This and That’ & Wallace Stevens - 4/15/21
robert e. lee - traitor? - 4/22/21
hiatus and free, digital global summit xii - 4/29/21
HIATUS AND FREE, DIGITAL GLOBAL SUMMIT XII - 5/6/21
Readers favorite poems (part three) - 6/3/21
celebrate Juneteenth on saturday - 6/17/21
Six Patriotic Songs for a Joyous July Fourth part one- 6/24/21
SIX PATRIOTIC SONGS FOR A JOYOUS JULY FOURTH part two - 7/1/21
Re-Run Book Notes -- On Leadership: Part 1 - 7/8/21
RE-RUN BOOK NOTES -- ON LEADERSHIP: PART 2 - 7/15/21
RE-RUN BOOK NOTES -- ON LEADERSHIP: PART 3 - 7/22/21
book notes #68: Take me out to the ball game's "feminist" origins - 7/29/21
BOOK NOTES #69: after nationalism - 8/5/21
BOOK NOTES #70: more readers' favorite poems - 8/12/21
BOOK NOTES #71: songs of freedom, songs of protest: part one - 8/19/21
BOOK NOTES #72: SONGS OF FREEDOM, SONGS OF PROTEST: PART TWO - 8/26/21
BOOK NOTES #73: SONGS OF FREEDOM, SONGS OF PROTEST: PART THREE - 9/2/21
BOOK NOTES #75: on turning 75 - 9/30/21
BOOK NOTES #75 2.0: more thoughts and corrections ON TURNING 75 - 10/7/21
BOOK NOTES #76: SHAKESPEARE IN A DIVIDED AMERICA - 10/14/21
BOOK NOTES #77: MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY - 10/21/21
BOOK NOTES #78: BOO! IT'S HALLOWEEN! - 10/28/21
BOOK NOTES RE-RUN: 'HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE' & 'ON TYRANNY'- 11/4/21
BOOK NOTES RE-RUN: WHAT WERE MACHIAVELLI'S TRUE MOTIVES? - 11/11/21
BOOK NOTES RE-RUN: Happy Thanksgiving! Be Grateful for Hale, Child, too - 11/18/21
BOOK NOTES #79: A-CAROLING WE WILL GO! - 12/2/21
BOOK NOTES #80: A-CAROLING WE WILL GO! (PART 2) - 12/9/21
BOOK NOTES #81: COMICALLY, A-CAROLING WE WILL GO! (part 3) - 12/16/21
BOOK NOTES #82: A-CAROLING WE WILL GO! (PART 4) - 12/22/21
BOOK NOTES RE-RUN: SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT, AND AULD LANG SYNE - 12/30/21
THE GREAT GATSBY: 'ALMOST 100 AND COUNTING'- 1/6/22
JOAN DIDION: 'WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES'- 1/13/22
Arthur Sze: Present-to-the-Present - 1/27/22
A Snowfall of Winter Poems - 2/3/22
BOOK NOTES #90: BANNED BOOKS- BURNING IDEAS CREATES A STENCH-2/24/22
BOOK NOTES #91: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FUTURE- 3/3/22
BOOK NOTES #92: SARA JOSEPHA HALE- SOMEONE YOU NEED TO KNOW- 3/10/22
Book Notes #93 Happy St. Patricks Day - 3/17/22
Book Notes #94 Lydia Maria Child First Woman of the Republic - 3/24/22
BOOK NOTES #95 SEVERAL 'AMAZING 19TH CENTURY WOMEN LOST TO HISTORY - 3/31/22
BOOK NOTES #98 GREAT POEMS ABOUT SPRING (PART ONE)- 4/21/22
BOOK NOTES #99 GREAT POEMS ABOUT SPRING (PART TWO)- 4/28/22
BOOK NOTES #100 BASEBALL MUSIC: A PRIMER (PART ONE)- 5/5/22
BOOK NOTES #101 BASEBALL MUSIC: A PRIMER (PART TWO)- 5/12/22
Book Notes Re-Run #4: This America: The Case for the Nation Jill Lepore- 5/19/22