Ragged Clown has been posting for twenty years Continue reading →

We are lost in the worthy zone. Continue reading →

Inside every old person is a young person who doesn’t really understand that he’s old now. Continue reading →

What was it like to have so much hatred for someone she does not even know? Continue reading →

Think about this when you see chimpanzees drinking tea and playing pianos on TV. Chimps also have, like us, minds enough to lose and memories that can hasten the process. Wild chimps ‘recruited’ by poachers for entertainment watch as their … Continue reading →

Roger Ebert has written a powerful, meandering essay about shame. He inspired me to add my own. Continue reading →

Was going to write a review of The Battle of Algiers but it is so much easier to copy/paste from Roger Ebert. At the height of the street fighting in Algiers, the French stage a press conference for a captured … Continue reading →

By the time I was Dylan’s age, I had already gone through several heroes – Best, Presley, Nelson, Scott, Cook, Richard the Lionheart. By hero, I mean someone to look up to, to dream of being, to emulate, to inspire. … Continue reading →