B.B. King: “I think I’ve done the best I could have done.”
“I think I’ve done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many...
Category: Biography
“He never failed us.” A story about David Foster Wallace
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.'” – David Foster Wallace, writer of many novels including Infin...
Jackie Bouvier, “The Inquiring Camera Girl”
Before she became Jackie Kennedy, Jackie Bouvier was “The Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times Herald in 1952. Just 23 at the time, the r...
Prudence Crandall opens a school for black girls
“She was a slender young woman, with bright blue eyes, soft blond hair, and a special way of speaking, quiet, controlled –, ‘lady-like,’ as people said in the e...
The short story of Supreme Court Justice Byron White
Byron White was humble and he was studious and he had the work ethic of one who grew up in a small Colorado town. Which was Wellington in his case. And it was h...
