“There were joys in having a pet flea the shop clerk didn’t mention.” When an old man who has lived alone for a long time goes to buy a pet, he decides on a flea. The shop clerk tells him that the flea is house-trained and is a... Read More

“Intelligence” surely deserves a place in this book’s subtitle: it was the quality that enabled Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, universally known as Madame de Pompadour, to become mistress and friend of Louis XV; a sensitive patron of... Read More

To have a medical doctor address the sacred aspects of healing is either a courageous act on the part of Shealy or a sign of our times—that the medical establishment is opening up to the realities that tremendous numbers of the... Read More