by Tom DeWolf | May 25, 2012 | Inheriting the Trade
Eric was 16 years old when we met in Ghana in 2001 when we were filming Traces of the Trade. We became very close friends. I don’t think 2 weeks has gone by since then that we haven’t communicated via email. I had hoped to get back to Ghana by now to visit...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 26, 2012 | Politics
It was announced today that the federal National Endowment for the Arts has made sweeping funding cuts to established PBS shows. More details are available here. I can’t measure the the impact of this, or fully wrap my head around it. This will take time (and...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 3, 2011 | Appearances by Tom
Part of what kept us centered throughout this beautiful, tumultuous, and sometimes painful journey was that we sometimes had to remind ourselves that our story did not begin in these hard and musty dungeons but that our journey started billions of years ago in the...
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 | Jan 28, 2011 | Other Musings
My sister wrote to ask me if we’re related to Molly DeWolf Swenson, the phenom who sang Sitting on the Dock of the Bay on American Idol on the January 26 episode. Molly became an instant sensation both for her terrific voice as well as for her encounter with...
