by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Here is the most important four-letter word in the entire English language: home. It conjures up and is connected to every element of the well-lived life: spouse, family, peace, comfort, security. Nothing can match its importance, nothing can duplicate its significance. Nothing is more powerful than our memories …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Winter. What a revoltin’ development this is. I often wonder on days so ridiculously cold like this one is why the Puritans stayed here after arriving and sampling the depths of a Massachusetts winter. I suppose it had something to do with their land grants and, of course, …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note! Do you know the great Irish tenor John McCormack? If not, your grandmother surely did. “I tell you Mary Louise, he has the voice of an angel, an angel…” One of the multitude of songs he popularized and made his own was the famous tune “Silver threads among …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. This is an article about writers, our idiosyncrasies and distinct peculiarities, our need for empathy…; for your ear… and, always, for your eye and deft delivered honesty. I have been a published author now for nearly 60 years, and I know the labor pains that stop you in …
Sarach Palin erects fence to stop author’s intrusion Former US vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin has put up a high fence in efforts to stop the intrusions of a new neighbour, who has rented the house next door to hers and is writing her unauthorised biography Read more on TVNZ