DrPat Reads

There is no shortage of films about the crass greed of stockbrokers and others who make their living selling. The broker is often depicte...

The "M" still stands for home... My flash is not fiction this week. While we still live, we can climb out of any pit. Someti...

Mrs. Tim of the Regiment  by D.E. Stevenson is a sentimental period-piece, set in rural England and Scotland between the wars. The story i...

Review:  The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage Long before the Web, there was a network of wires that connected continents, carried ...

Bougainvillea vine drapes a building with intense color. I first visited California in winter-time, after the initial winter rains had f...

Born down in a dead man’s town. —Bruce Springsteen The Springsteen quote supplies the epigraph for It Returns , a post-Apocalyptic ...

Today, thousands of years of coveting, fighting over, hoarding, taxing and searching for salt appear picaresque and slightly foolish. The...