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By Jim Rhodes Today is the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. I discovered Beethoven in the 1960s, when I […]

By Jim Rhodes Last week Diego Maradona died. Over a socially spaced Thanksgiving dinner, our son and I were reflecting […]

By Jim Rhodes As I write these words, it’s the Friday before Election Day in the United States. To escape […]

By Jim Rhodes Three months ago, on the occasion of the international “Day of the Seafarer,” I wrote in these […]

By Jim Rhodes Sir Stafford Cripps (above) was a leftish political leader, cabinet member and diplomat of the mid-20th […]

By Jim Rhodes Welcome to August, the eighth month of the year. It takes its name from the Roman emperor […]

By Jim Rhodes Last Thursday was June 25, celebrated annually as the “Day of the Seafarer” by the International Maritime […]

By Jim Rhodes The year was 1793. The place was Philadelphia. It was an unusually hot summer. Philadelphia was the […]

By Jim Rhodes Humpty Dumpty: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean … […]

By Jim Rhodes Last Fall I buried in my garden several dozen tulip bulbs, which I had purchased on my […]