by Tom DeWolf | Jul 27, 2011 | Movies, Reviews
This wonderful documentary introduces us to five ordinary Russian people. They grew up in the Soviet Union, watched that system collapse during their teenage years, witnessed the extraordinary political changes that resulted, and raised families in post-Soviet Russia....
by Tom DeWolf | Dec 3, 2010 | Books, Reviews, Movies, Reviews
When I was a child television news in our home meant Walter Cronkite. In junior high school history class we watched his “You Are There” series of historical reenactments. There were reasons he was the most trusted man in America; why President Johnson...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 16, 2010 | Healthy Living, Movies, Reviews
Fix your life for half price through this Friday! How’s that for a sales pitch? You have until this Friday, November 19 to purchase Simply Raw and the 2-DVD set Raw for Life for $29.95. They also toss in a bunch of bonus materials. Lindi and I purchased this set...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 23, 2010 | Books, Reviews, History, Genealogy, Movies, Reviews
Throughout American history John Adams has mostly lingered in the shadows beneath his contemporaries George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Washington was “first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Adams was...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 5, 2010 | Movies, Reviews
Every time I’m tempted to believe I’ve encountered a model of healing that will work for people who have been seriously damaged by oppression I”m slapped upside the head by a reminder of just how difficult healing is. In Ireland during the 1970’s,...
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 18, 2010 | Movies, Reviews
Bill Kuntsler was a radical civil rights lawyer in the 6o’s and 70’s. He fought with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He defended the Chicago Eight, the inmates from the Attica Prison riots, and defendants from the American Indian Movement who protested at...
