The Little Sandy Review Yogi Berra: Deja Vu All Over Again

James E. Akenson New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra keeps coming up again and again as I go through life. Yogi Berra made famous the use of Deja Vu All Over Again. A touch repetitive. A touch redundant. But, it stuck in our cultural mind and heritage. Strangely, it speaks the truth. Things have […]
Breathing in “Black Lung” & Hazel Dickens

Anna Valcour I first heard “Black Lung” by Hazel Dickens in a graduate seminar taught by Dr. Taylor Ackley and was overwhelmed by her haunting, raw, lonesome sound – or as Hazel put it, “hard-core…it’s all feeling and emotion.” And she’s right. But then, I learned her story, and it gripped me even further. […]