by Charles Norman | Feb 27, 2020 | Family
My Dad – and His Typewriter – Fought in the War on Poverty And this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America… The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it. — Lyndon...
by Charles Norman | Feb 21, 2020 | Song of the Day
The Soods – Hard To Conceal Eons ago, during the Obama Administration, I stood in the checkout line of a CVS drugstore in a small Georgia town whose most thriving industry, as far as I could tell, was the selling of title loans. The woman in front of me, with a...
by Charles Norman | Feb 20, 2020 | Song of the Day
Steven Lipsticks and His Magic Band – Home There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer I’m not chewing it, sir. It’s chewing me. — John Steinbeck, The Affair at 7, Rue de M– I do what I can to...
by Charles Norman | Feb 17, 2020 | Song of the Day
BLÜM – Amends How many times has this scene, or a variation on it, flickered across a movie screen or been streamed onto the flat face of your favorite device… Someone seeking revenge and bearing a deadly weapon leaps out of the shadows toward another...
by Charles Norman | Feb 14, 2020 | Song of the Day
Summerooms – Pull Apart Rachel’s departure was meant to be final. She had left me twice before – the second time, we divorced and then remarried – and I watched her go each time with a feeling that was far from happy, but also with that renewal of...
