The year is 1955. The Fonz is blasting "Rock Around the Clock" on the jukebox and the McFlys are going steady thanks to a confused teen with a tricked-out DeLorean. Greasers and poodle skirts ...
Walt Whitman, old Walt - the colossus, skulking in the shadows of all modern verse, hovering in the gloom, this ancient Gandalf trapper. An all-American, in the original manner that that description w...
Some of your greatest opportunities are ahead of you, although some are seemingly not a possibility. But all you have to do is decide to try ... to take the first step ... to put something into motion...
1997 is possibly my favorite single year for music ever. For some reason or another many of the albums that I consider to be among the best albums ever recorded were released in 1997. In this article ...
It’s official, as if anyone had any doubt. The Aussie pop chanteuse, Kylie Minogue, is now a cultural icon, at least as far as the French are concerned.
On Monday Minogue became a chevalier de Lâ€...
In 1966, the residents in a quiet, almost forgotten part of the city rose up to halt a plan to replace the panhandle leading into Golden Gate Park with a freeway. The effort is still celebrated with a...
When thinking about places with a modern literary history to visit, there's hardly a city in America that can compete with San Francisco as a beatnik's dream.
Upon a visit to San Francisco, you might...
Greenwich Village is a small section of Manhattan south of 14th Street and west of Broadway. The streets in the Village are named as opposed to being numbered as they are in most parts of Manhattan. T...
1. Opposites live within us all. I have worked with dreams for decades because they are the most profound spiritual guidance we all have access to each night. While I assume that "I have c...