The Recovering Hopper

  F or my birthday celebration Little One came over on Saturday and she, the Mrs, and I drove down to Dallas. After five years in Texas I wa...

  I’ve come up with a new epigram:   HISTORIAM LEGERE EST TRISTE ESSE   In my native tongue, that translates to: “To read history is...

  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...