Dispatches
Dispatches from Home – Former Things are Passed Away!
Greetings! This picture brought tears to this jaded, old fool’s eyes. What a profound statement in iron and marble that illustrates the Good Book’s words: “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no…
Dispatches from Home – The Beginning and the End. The Rasputin File.
Following up on last week’s book about Nicholas and Alexandra’s lost life and times, I could not pass up a book about Rasputin, one of the main characters involved in the collapse of the Romanovs. Edvard Radzinski’s “The Rasputin File”…
Dispatches from Home – Miss Emma and A Chasing of the Wind.
Small world, ain’t it! This wonderful house is owned by Mrs. Emma Foy, a grand dame from the Old School, as we say down South. While searching the internet for a snap of a grand old house to use on…
Dispatches from Home – The Allure of Charles Dickens.
Jason Follett on the Facebook site—Celebrating British & Irish Entertainment—wrote this about one of my favorite authors, Charles Dickens. “Charles Dickens’ novels were immensely popular across all social classes, including the illiterate poor, during the 19th century. His works, rich…
Dispatches from Home – Love Thy Neighbor.
“If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture–Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself–ye do well.” Everyone deserves a gentle word or a simple act of kindness, regardless if they are in your comfort zone or not. As…
Dispatches from Home – The First and the Last: TSAR – THE LOST WORLD OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA.
This book, by author Peter Kurth, begins thusly: “The morning of March 6, 1913, was cloudy in St. Petersburg—laden would be a better word to describe the heavy skies, the mist, the torrent of rain, and occasional roll of thunder…
Dispatches from Home – Biloxi Bacon!
Greetings! I borrowed this from The Point Facebook site. It was posted by Archie Louis Sellier Jr. I thought Coastal Friends and Family would find it interesting. Surely, during the Civil War, the Yankees weren’t fooled by…well…read and make up…
Dispatches from Home – The Creature From the Black Lagoon!
FUN TIME! Name the first horror picture you saw that scared you to death…and why. Me? “The Creature From The Black Lagoon!” It was the first time a body suit was worn to create a monster. When that long, bony,…
Dispatches from Home – A Few Words From Job Jr.
One month ago, our in-ground pump, with which I water our lawn, rusted out and had to be replaced. About that time, lightning struck a towering pine tree in our neighbor’s yard, taking out our air conditioning, my answering machine,…
Dispatches from Home – Empty Mansions!
The First Lines and Last Lines of the book EMPTY MANSIONS, THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE OF HUGUETTE CLARK. “Huguette and Andree, daughters of the multimillionaire former senator W.A. Clark, arrived in New York Harbor in July 1910, immigrants to their own…
Dispatches from Home – The Passing of James Henry LeBatard.
Goodbye, Dear James Henry. I knew the laugh before I knew the man. It was a bellowing hoop-of-a-laugh, and I first heard it over 25 years ago at an audition for “Scrooge, The Musical,” directed by Kinard Fite at the…
Dispatches from Home – The Picture of Dorian Gray.
THE FIRST LINES AND LAST LINES – THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY “The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open…