His Finest Words
By Jim Rhodes Saturday marked the 56th anniversary of the date of Winston Churchill’s funeral. The service was held on […]
Happy Birthday
By Jim Rhodes Today is the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. I discovered Beethoven in the 1960s, when I […]
Parallel Lives
By Jim Rhodes Last week Diego Maradona died. Over a socially spaced Thanksgiving dinner, our son and I were reflecting […]
Click and Clack
By Jim Rhodes As I write these words, it’s the Friday before Election Day in the United States. To escape […]
All Talk, No Action.
By Jim Rhodes Three months ago, on the occasion of the international “Day of the Seafarer,” I wrote in these […]
Tips of the Slung
By Jim Rhodes Sir Stafford Cripps (above) was a leftish political leader, cabinet member and diplomat of the mid-20th […]
A Beginning and an End
By Jim Rhodes Welcome to August, the eighth month of the year. It takes its name from the Roman emperor […]
Imprisoned
By Jim Rhodes Last Thursday was June 25, celebrated annually as the “Day of the Seafarer” by the International Maritime […]