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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: Everybody’s Irish And Individual
Here’s a drink I would never order: an Everybody’s Irish. It calls for despoiling Irish whiskey with green Chartreuse, green crème de menthe, and an olive. Ugh. There are any number of reasons to…
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Moments of Glad Grace (by Eleanor Goodman)
After a visit with my mother a few weeks ago, I came to realize something bizarre: she’s old. As children, if we’re lucky, we never have to think of our parents as impermanent. They…
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Elinor Nauen & Lord Byron (Terence Winch)
After the publication of his early work Childe Harold, Lord Byron (1788–1824) memorably said that he “awoke one morning and found myself famous.” He became, in fact, something of a global superstar, adumbrating …
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They’re baaaaaack . . .”Attack of the Squash People” by Marge Piercy
And thus the people every year in the valley of humid July did sacrifice themselves to the long green phallic god and eat and eat and eat. They're coming, they're on us, the long…
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Louis Armstrong: You’ll Never Walk Alone
Louis Armstrong was born on July 4, 1900 if you believe him or August 4, 1901 if you believe your lying eyes. Let's assume the latter as astrologically valid. A Leo, then, with Aries…
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All-Time Great Sentences
From Kissinger by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schyster, 2005), p. 131. This sentence appears after the author has presented several rival versions of an incident during the 1968 presidential election campaign: "Where does the truth…
