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  • An Open Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives

    An Open Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives0

    Dear Members of the House of Representatives, I hope this letter finds you in fine fettle. This is a first for me. I’ve never written an open letter. Usually celebrities, politicians, and academics compose and deliver these missives, often brickbats of denunciation and self-defense, to be printed in the media. For an ordinary guy like

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  • An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Virginia

    An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Virginia0

    Dear Governor Northam: I hope this letter of objection finds you well in the middle of this lockdown you have declared here in Virginia. As you must be aware, many of your fellow citizens are suffering from business closures and stay-at-home orders. Some people I know here in Front Royal – the baristas and cooks

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  • An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Michigan

    An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Michigan0

    Dear Governor Whitmer, It appears the “non-essentials” are gathering to protest again today. Unfortunately, this third protest – termed “judgment day” by some, makes it a little hard for you to enjoy the contemplative life that government-mandated quarantine would seem to afford us. Yet given that this is your decision, and you have a guaranteed paycheck, I

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  • An Open Letter to Our Kakistocrat Elected Officials

    An Open Letter to Our Kakistocrat Elected Officials0

    Dear Mayors and Governors, In his book The Best Words, Robert Hartwell Fiske, once editor and publisher of the online Vocabula Review, defined kakistocracy (kak-i-Stock-rah-see) as “government by the worst, most unscrupulous, or least qualified citizens.” As one of his examples of usage, he offered this excerpt written by James Russell Lowell in 1876: “What fills me

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  • An Old-School Education Model Reinvented for the 21st Century

    An Old-School Education Model Reinvented for the 21st Century0

    My grandfather attended a one-room schoolhouse as a child, although he sometimes was thrown out for smelling like the skunks he pulled from his trapping route on the way to school. He made some good money checking his traps on the path to and from school, paid by Sears, Roebuck and Co. for the pelts

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  • An Old Guy Takes Some Lessons From ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’

    An Old Guy Takes Some Lessons From ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’0

    Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the

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