By the end of "A Matter of Honor", its young hero Richard Cutler has acquired an amazing curriculum vitae—perhaps too amazing for some readers. He first appears in 1777 as a Massachusetts teenager, scion of a well-to-do family of... Read More

The customer is number one is the mantra of good business, so why do so many feel like number two, or three? Author Michael Brown, drawing on his background as both a front-of-the-store employee as well as an MBA-trained and Fortune 100... Read More

“I’m not really tired / I can’t fall asleep / I think I need help / From my friends, Sleepy Sheep!” Sheep have been sleep-makers for all time, so it is fitting that they do so for children in a silly, yet educational way.... Read More

The word "Christmas" conjures up all sorts of associations: the holiness of the birth of Jesus, the beauty of the lights and evergreen decorations, and the frantic shopping for last-minute presents, to name just a few. In his six-chapter... Read More

As renowned literary critic and editor Sol Stein once said, the purpose of nonfiction is to impart information, but the purpose of fiction is to convey emotion. By this deceptively simple-sounding but all-important standard, "The Return... Read More

“I paint myself because I am so often alone, because I am the subject I know best,” said Frida Kahlo. Her painting, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, is in the Museum of Modern Art. Created in 1940, shortly after her divorce from... Read More

“Many of us carry around a bucolic view of farming, ranching, and rural America. We think of farming as being toxic only after the introduction of DDT at the close of World War II. Such presumptions are wrong,” Will Allen writes.... Read More

A love match progresses, matures to fruition, and inevitably ends as life does, in imitation of the growing season. These poems of engagement and sustenance are organized into three chapters: Melody, Rhythm, and Harmony. Sixteen of the... Read More