Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...

One of the best books I've read in a long time is Bryan Burroughs' "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the B...

Up until the early sixties, most hit songs were written by writers and sung by singers. In the early sixties, that changed-- the day of the ...

I'm not a big believer in the whole thing about craziness during full moon-- statistics have shown that there are no more births, arrest...

Today, I had my clinical orientation for my Psych rotation, at a major public mental health facitlity, finishing a really good week, very we...

One of my summer reads, another Kindle book, was Sheila Weller's "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-- and the...

Years ago, when my son was very young, he came to me and told me that he'd made a very important decision: that he had decided he wanted...

I really meant to post a bunch this week-- I'm working on a post about two infamous gangsters and their Chicago connections. But time sl...

As a relaxing and productive summer comes to an end and I get ready to go back to school, I feel like Merle Haggard's "If We Make I...