Cars are nearly irresistible. They offer unparalleled mobility as they can reach most destinations quickly and at the convenience of the driver, who expends minimal physical effort (at least for the driving). This “freedom,” however,... Read More

Elderly people in today’s society are generally seen as either frail individuals who need to be taken care of, or as super elders, climbing mountains or running marathons. The idea of elderly people having romantic and sexual... Read More

Grant is probably one of those delightfully annoying people who says, tongue firmly in cheek, that theirs is a tough job — but, hey, someone has to do it. The former Public Broadcasting Service executive now owns Driftwood Productions,... Read More

William Blake’s paradox, “without contraries is no progression,” could well serve as an epigraph to a book premised on the belief that perceiving the contradictions at the heart of erotic love is the only route to romantic and... Read More

“Angels are baffled when they hear that there actually are people who ascribe everything to nature and nothing to the Divine…Yet if only they could raise their minds a bit, they would see that things like this are from the... Read More

Tiny ladybugs, or ladybeetles, fly one hundred miles in their autumn migration. Millions of Monarch butterflies leave northeastern North America for the volcanic mountains west of Mexico City. These are two of the more interesting and... Read More

Set in Russia, Martin weaves a wild tale of treachery, wars, prophecy and resolution with a swift finale. Beginning in 1913, Rasputin, also known as Grigori Yefimovich Novykh, has secretly wed an American called Katherine and once she is... Read More

Radio has been relegated to such background status today that it’s difficult to imagine how people once gathered around it so expectantly. The four classics, three by Nathaniel Hawthorne, from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting... Read More