Dawn Reader

  Sue Grafton, who died at 77. Earlier, I was staring across the room at a couple of shelves of Sue Grafton mysteries. Remember her? She wro...

  Chaplin in Modern Times , 1936 Charles Spencer Chaplin wrote “Smile,” a song that appeared in his 1936 film,  Modern Times . I used to tea...

  I’ve realized recently that I stream films and TV shows by using the same technique I use while reading books: piecemeal.* Right now, for ...

Seidman Cancer Center Orange Place Beachwood, Ohio Yesterday was a miserable day. Our appointment was at 12:40, so we spent almost all of th...

  If you had told me in tenth grade (when we were supposed to read Julius Caesar ) that I would end up loving Shakespeare, I would have laug...

  You might remember this 1975 song by Paul Simon? (If not, it’s easy to find on YouTube.) As I was thinking about it today, I was lamenting...

  I’ve started reading Anne Tyler’s first novel, If Morning Ever Comes , published in 1964 when she was only 22 years old (I was still a stu...