Brownie's Lament

I have started this blog with all six essays I wrote for English 101 this last semester(spring 2009). I hope this blog will be a clearing ho...

I think I was a pretty decent writer when I came to English 101. I have always been a daily reader. My mother was a voracious consumer o...

The premise that there is a “world's greatest musician” is absurd. There are so many different kinds of music in the world, and so many...

The threat from Iran toward the United States is routinely overblown and hyped. American government and media both uniformly present Iran a...

The articles, “30 Little Turtles”, by Thomas L. Friedman, and “New Threat to Skilled U.S. Workers”, by Froma Harrop, give two radically dif...

When I was nineteen, and had been out of high school for about six months, I needed a change. I was living in Michigan with my mother, work...

Favorable Having risen before dawn, I’m sitting in the Weston Café on a brisk, early-spring morning. The ceiling fan lights cast a cheer...