This journal chronicles the year my wife and I lived in a wooden Khmer style bungalow in southern Cambodia beside the Kampot River. There are tributes to greatness...Fred Astaire & Jimmy Connors. An Anecdote concerning a pretender to greatness...Gore Vidal. Essays on writing and the turbulence of recent Cambodian history. Addressing the mysterious disappearance if Jim Thompson, the "Silk King of Thailand'. Also, the English painter, Francis Bacon. Humor predominates throughout.
Democratic Dilemmas and Divine Inspiration examines the significance or relevance of the idea that the U.S. Constitution was, as many believe, divinely inspired. How much did that belief matter to founders of the nation and how much does it matter no
