“The society with which I mingled, was intelligent, courteous, and agreeable. The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason: for beautiful and thriving as it is now, and containing, as it does, a population of fifty thousand…

Every now and then a TV or movie character connects with you. On a whim, I tuned into Ted Lasso — a story about an American college football coach hired to coach AFC Richmond, an English Premier League football club. I didn’t expect much. …

“Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead! Brothers, what we do in life… echoes in eternity.” — Maximus, Gladiator Our day-to-day lives…