Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: April 11, 1945: liberation of Buchenwald Poem: An elegy is, as Edward Hirsch writes, “a poem of mortal loss and consolation.” 

Dear Friends, Tangents: Birthday: April 7, 1915, Billie Holiday. GOD BLESS THE CHILD …Mama may have, papa may have But God bless the child that’s

Dear Friends, Tangents:   The “point”, Darwin taught us, is to pass on our genes.  This is as true for humans as

Dear Friends, Tangents: Notable & Quotable: Cicero on Growing Old From a new translation by classicist Philip Freeman, “How to Grow Old” (Princeton University Press),

Dear Friends, Tangents: 1928: Maya Angelou was born. On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in

Dear Friends, Tangents: On this day in 1700, April Fools’ Day tradition of playing practical jokes becomes popularized in England. FIVE THINGS ABOUT