It is brutal outside. 98 degrees, feels like 100 or more. Day after day of this constant heat is fatiguing. Hope you're cool wherever y...

Today is the birth date of one of the originators of  noir detective fiction. Raymond Chandler was, by all accounts, a fairly grump...

The French Fauvist  artist Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953) was born at Le Havre, in Normandy. Just in time for him to develop ...

Obviously, Netflix is a necessity if you love films as much as I do and I know that nothing in life is fixed, much as we would wish it oth...

Friday's Forgotten Books is a Weekly Meme hosted by Patti Abbott at her blog PATTINASE  Please check in to see what other forgott...

Illustration of Archie Goodwin by Austin Briggs for the Saturday Evening Post, June 21, 1958 You all know (if you're a regular reader ...

now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else. xli....

Forgotten or Overlooked Films Tuesday is a weekly meme usually hosted by Todd Mason over at his blog,  SWEET FREEDOM. Every Tuesday, over...

This is a toughie. It's been years and years since I've been around teenagers and their reading ways. But what the heck, I'll...

...I timidly ventured forth on this blogging adventure. Me. Techno-phobic me. I thought I'd just try it for awhile and really, what...

5 Best Books on a given topic is the weekly meme hosted by Cassandra at her blog,  INDIE READER HOUSTON. Each week, a different topic.Thi...