Author: JLongs

Since the last couple weeks have been family and friends, this week is about those wonderful creatures that are both family and friends to so many of us-Animals. Animals in literature are a long-standing tradition.  Not...

I have a very dear friend who is ill.  We’ve been friends for what will be 19 years this September.  About eight years ago, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. How the brain tumor was found is straight out of a...

I received the following in an email this evening.  It struck me, hard, and gave me chills.  It brought a tear to my eye. How far have we gone to come back in a circle this way?   What right have those in power to...

(This is the Booman Tribune premiere of the Weekly Book Diary that I’ve been doing over on Kos for a few months.  The rest of the series can be found here, interspersed with the odd and very rare midweek diary....

The decision handed down by the supreme court gives government the ability to seize private property for “economic development”.   This is outrageous. As a result, cities have wide power to bulldoze residences...