Memorandums from Mary

I recently read Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel. However, I was left with two burning questions after f...

As I pointed in my previous post; there were some similarities between the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic and the current COVID-19 pandemic . In ...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. —George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905) Edvard Munch did a series of se...

In high school, in the Midwest, I learned about the concept of Manifest Destiny. This was the idea that White Americans were ordained, by Go...

Jim Jones [Powers Boothe] in 1980’s Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. This historical event is where the phrase  “ drinking the Kool-A...