He was a real stallion, painted life-sized in 1762 by George Stubbs. At that time, a form called “heroic couplets” was the most popular for poetry, thus in them my…
About 28 uninterrupted hours on two planes, three trains, and one automobile, and I am in my room in France. At five o’clock on the morning of June 2nd, my…
I saw a buffalo playing! And the cowboy mystique is real in Wyoming. I’d fallen asleep to pelting rain on Janet’s little skylight, but woke to blue sky and sunshine!…
Proper Shakespeare fans will know that John of Gaunt, the scheming ancestor of the Tudors… …was born here. I think that the old English spelling indicates how to pronounce the…
