

On the Power of Symbols
By Leonard Wibberley An Excerpt from Something to Read 3/1/2020 There is on the Rock of Cashel in the Plain of Tipperary a lovely toy...


Pirates were Really a Poor Lot
By Leonard Wibberley First published June 12, 1979 11/12/2018 I am writing a book about pirates for children, such as you and me, and to...


Convenient Time for a Heart Attack
By Leonard Wibberley First published in 1973 9/15/2018 About a year ago I suffered a heart attack. It came at a most convenient time, for...

Personality Problems of the Motor Car
By Leonard Wibberley First published March 8th, 1959 8/31/2018 NOTE: Leonard Wibberley, Los Angeles newspaperman turned author, finds...


Author's Back Despises Literature
By Leonard Wibberley First printed on April 17, 1979 3/29/2018 The reason this is not going to be a very interesting column is that my...


On Reading to Children
By Leonard Wibberley First printed in The New York Times in 1961 2/20/18 I suppose that there is as much nonsense written on the subject...


I Confess (with Apologies to Scrooge)
By Leonard Wibberley First Published December 19, 1973 12/20/2017 An insurance agent recently pointed out that, the walls of my living...


Today's Knives Are Dull
By Leonard Wibberley First Published Unknown 11/22/2017 I do not know what has happened to knives but over the years they have become...


Life, Liberty...and the Pursuit of a Fiddle
By Leonard Wibberley Originally published in the Los Angeles Times on the Bicentennial July 4th, 1976 7/4/2017 This is surely the time to...


Baby—and Father—Doing Well
By Leonard Wibberley Originally published in the Boston Globe June 14, 1980 6/17/2017 I once went to live in Portugal with my wife and...