by Wayne Fowler | Mar 26, 2017 | NGN
If I was a betting man, I’d put money on “virtue-signaling” to be Oxford’s word of the year for 2017. You’ve probably noticed it, even if you haven’t heard the term. When a celebrity is outraged about an issue and co-ops an awards ceremony to express disgust or...
by Wayne Fowler | Mar 19, 2017 | NGN
It was a sequence of events that left me feeling caught up in something beyond my control, wondering what just happened. It’s a true story from when I lived in Haiti. A fellow (I’ll call him KT) in our village always seemed a bit unhinged. The rope he used for a belt...
by Wayne Fowler | Mar 12, 2017 | NGN
Singing and playing the banjo were not what first brought fame to Steve Martin. His public career began in comedy in the 1960’s when he worked with the Smothers Brothers and Johnny Carson. Music was part of his stand-up routine, but in the last 15 years or so Martin...
by Wayne Fowler | Mar 5, 2017 | NGN
Winning Nobel and Pulitzer prizes for his life’s work was inevitable for Ernest Hemingway. He was by all accounts a brilliant scoundrel. He was a master at developing characters with the code hero traits of honor and courage. It was Hemingway that popularized the...
