Have a wonderful Christmas!
Best wishes to you and yours on this holiday!
The Outer Garden
The Truce of 1914: A thought of hope for Christmas.
The famous World War I Christmas Eve truce still has lessons for us today on how to imagine a better world.
Expulsion from paradise: The civilian evacuees from Hawaii after Pearl Harbor.
Thirty thousand people fled Hawaii in the wake of Pearl Harbor. Many never returned.
Thanksgiving 2025: Best wishes to all of you.
Enjoy the holiday, turkey, family and friends today. Best wishes for the season.
Historic Painting: “Napoleon and his General Staff” by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1867.
This view of a scene during Napoleon's Nile campaign of 1798 is classic Gérôme on every level.
Blog hiatus: Gone to sea.
"They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters..."
LinkedIn, the bleakest social network: An anatomy of its failure.
Why is LinkedIn so horrible? It goes even beyond the conceptual failure of most social media sites.