The Recovering Hopper

  H ey, here’s a strange, World War II-ish fact I came across out of the blue a few days ago.   Do you know the soft drink Fanta? Though...

  E ver since I started reading about World War II, probably going back to 2011 but gaining some steam during the initial days of Covid, I s...

  H aven’t been much into World War II this year, since I’ve been mainly focusing on classic literature, but on this anniversary of the 1941...

  S o I was genuinely excited a few months back when I first learned that a major motion picture of the life and career of Napoleon Bonapart...

  My favorite part of last weekend’s trip to the Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas – and definitely the favorite part for m...

  What a great long weekend we had down here! Early Saturday morning we packed up the car with four days’ worth of luggage, food and drink...

  Over the past eighteen months or so I’ve been reading a lot about warfare. Specifically, World War II. I enjoy more “birds-eye” books rath...

  Last Sunday the Mrs. decided to take us all out for sushi. But it couldn’t be any old sushi den. It had to be the hippest, trendiest sushi...

Family business brought me to the town of Florida, New York yesterday, and look what I discovered in a small alcove adjoining the buildin...

The JFK assassination … 56 years ago today. I first became aware of it sometime around 5th grade or so. Must’ve been 1978, 79. It w...

OK, I was slumming for a few days. I read a Jesse Ventura book on the JFK assassination. For those in the know, it was slightly closer to...

A repost from seven years ago, since I’m in the thick of Shelby Foote’s second volume on the Civil War (Gettysburg, appropriately) – ...