Monthly Archives: September 2022

The many calls reverberating in the West–which now includes Ukraine, something that would have been almost unthinkable before 2014–for a Ukrainian victory over Russia should make the more sober people among us stop and consider what such a victory would … Continue reading →

9/22/22, 7 PM, Lane Public Library, Oxford, Ohio. From one of Bernarr Macfadden’s popular magazines. The pic and the idea of “woman’s physical development” were unthinkable and unprintable a few decades earlier. Macfadden loved the phrase “well sexed womanhood.” The … Continue reading →

I was asked by the administrators of a relatively new site “The Five Best Books on . . . ” to make a list of my 5 favorite books on coffee. Here is the link: https://shepherd.com/best-books/us-china-britain-france-and-nicaragua-coffee My list is idiosyncratic, … Continue reading →