"I suppose the psycho-analysts would talk about inferiority complex and defense tactics sunk in, but that doesn't make life a glad strengthening of thought by thought, the 1+1 that is more than 2."

In which a distant cousin embezzles $350,000 and almost makes an operatic tenor take the blame.

A kind person who had acquired a couple of my great-great-uncle's high school essays from the 1880s found me and offered to send them to me.

Here's a poem by Christian K. Binkley, written 100 years ago today: the day after the San Francisco earthquake and fire, to which he was an eye-witness.