From Jounalism to Fiction

If you think Paris is all romance, croissants, and a chic café culture, then you haven’t been introduced to Miranda — a 4 ½-year-old self-proclaimed detective with a flair for chaos. "Mademoiselle le Sleuth" by Theasa Tuohy pulls you into the quirky underbelly of the...

My Op-Ed Daily News Only five of New York City's 150 statues of historical figures are of women. As the city looks to correct this egregious imbalance, it should look to a little-known teenage aviator named Elinor Smith. Ninety years ago today, on a clear October day,...

A war against the press? Today's news makes Trump's sound like small potatoes. Item: Saudi national columnist for The Washington Post goes missing in the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul. Turkish officials suspect he was murdered there. Item: An investigative reporter was...

The 50th Anniversary of Tet was Jan 30, 2018 With the approach of the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, a wonderful review or primer is Episode 6 of Ken Burns’ 10-part series “The Vietnam War.” Tet was the turning point of the war. Journalists were caught off...

This beautifully written and poignant essay is a teaser for an upcoming memoir by NY Times reporter Jeffrey Gentleman, "Love Africa." In it, he discusses "a rapidly shrinking sliver of an opportunity to bring peace to Somalia" in 2006. "Mogadishu wasn't an abattoir....

Check out the Friends of Jenny (FOJ) website. They are a non-profit organization bringing to life the significance of the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny biplane a hundred years after it was conceived and test-flewn. Forever associated with barnstorming, the first mass-produced...

Nearly a century after it was first issued, America’s most famous stamp - the misprinted 24-cent Inverted Jenny —Reprinted as a $2 stamp  full story @ US Postal Service Also, check out Stamps of Distinctionwebsite to read the history of the famous 1918 stamp.

Check out movie trailer for the one hour PBS documentary “Jenny”, the story of Glenn Curtiss and his most famous airplane.

A plane carrying Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and two other Americans released by Iran left Tehran en route to Europe on Sunday after the implementation of a landmark agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. But we’re hardly out of the woods. The French...