I never met the great basketball player, Bob Cousy, the man known as “the Houdini of the Hardwood,” yet he…
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Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality any of us…
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Phil Ochs, like John Prine who just died, was a great songwriter and singer who probed the depths of our…
From a wonderful singer and song writer, John Prine.