Let’s face it: a man’s idea of cooking a meal is heating up left-over Chinese take-out or zapping yesterday’s pizza slice in the microwave oven for breakfast. Sure the top chefs in the world are men but when it comes to the... Read More

…there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.—Plato from... Read More

Scandal is something that gets considerable attention. It doesn’t matter if the party or parties involved in the indiscretion are political figures celebrities business executives or the girl next door. People can’t help but to raise... Read More

Fascinating Fashions: In the 1920s, American women morphed from alabaster Victorian homemakers to painted jazz babies. The conformist ‘50s mom vacuuming in heels made way for braless, mini-skirted, go-go-booted iconoclasts. Thirty... Read More

While some may easily speak of gardening and spirituality in the same breath, far fewer will consider gardeners as the leading edge of resistance, or gardening as a political act. All these currents flow through this glorious compendium... Read More

Today it often seems that a poem is a poem is a poem. Not so this haunting and hypnotic paean to loss, displacement, and the journey to self. Unlike most contemporary poets whose antecedents are either academics such as Lowell, Berryman,... Read More

Once a year the fairies of Fairy Lane come together to celebrate the gift of flight. This year’s Time to Fly festival is particularly special for Petals, the swift little fairy at the center of this tale. Having proven that she is the... Read More

Where do things come from? This engaging reference provides scores of answers—not to the delicately classic question of babies, but rather the pedestrian mysteries of crayons, jellybeans, and sneakers. In his first publication as... Read More