As best we can figure, Homer wrote “The Odyssey” somewhere between 725 and 675 B.C.. If you wanted to experience it, you couldn’t buy a print version, considering that the Gutenberg printing press didn’t exist until 1455 A.D.. Instead, you’d find yourself a bard, who would have memorized the gist of the tale, while putting […]

If not for the atomic bomb, I might not be here. My father came of age during World War II. He trained to be a pilot in 1945, and even after Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker, the common wisdom was that a war was still on, that Japan would never surrender. The common […]