Reading Freely

By my calendar and clock it's  growing late on the last day of April, so the month  is nearly ended and with it Read of England.  This ...

Today's post covers a few of my "driving days", spanning  the AZ/Nevada border almost to the AZ/New Mexico border.  One of ...

Love Among the Chickens © 1906 P.G. Wodehouse 150 pages "He's a very young gentlemen, sir," said Mrs. Medley, in vague ...

Overlooking the fair city of Flagstaff is Lowell Observatory, perched atop Mars Hill.  The founder of the Observatory, Percival Lowell, bel...

I'm a regular irregular patron of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, a theater in Montgomery which always includes a few of the Ba...

For my return to the Southwest I'd intended to land in Santa Fe, enjoy that beautiful city again, and then venture north toward Taos...

Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket © 2001 Richard Holmes 400 pgs ‘There is no beating these British soldie...