On the road again, starting in Normandy
May 30, 2016
Jack and Marcia Schnedler are gallivanting once more as roving travel correspondents for Blood Dirt & Angels. They’ve embarked on a four-week trip that will feature celebration of Jack’s 73rd birthday in Paris and Marcia’s 73rd birthday four days later …
The Kindness by Polly Samson
May 26, 2016
The Kindness by Polly Samson (Bloomsbury, 294 pages) Reviewed by Karen Martin for blood, dirt & angels The story, although a decent enough mystery, isn’t the big deal here. It’s all about texture, sensory input, meaningful details in conversations and …
Supercalifragile by Scott Miller’s Game Theory
May 10, 2016
Scott Miller was a once-in-a-generation musician who took an established genre of music, examined it with the eye of a scientist, tore it down into its base components then reassembled them in startling new ways. He didn’t let convention, …
“Trump Stakes,” a poem by Johnny Wink
May 8, 2016
Sent our way this afternoon: Trump Stakes The Donald called me a liar when I told him That the word travel comes from a Latin word Having to do with torture. When I suggested That, when he gets around …
Some songs for Mom
May 8, 2016
Just a few songs my mother likes.