Poet’s Corner: Anticipating Nightfall The sky moves in billowing tonalities, layered blankets of soft blue gray hovering over a bright orange and yellow horizon. [...] March 10, 2019
Poet’s Corner: Snapshot Snow melting on the buried lawns, only 8:00 a.m. and it’s twenty degrees warmer than yesterday. The black road is [...] March 6, 2019
The Killer Collective: It Takes the Best to Take Down the Worst There’s such an array of good guys – and gals – in Barry Eisler’s The Killer Collective, that the group resembles a [...] March 5, 2019
Don’t Just View the Animal Exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, Read All About Them! What happens when an emperor penguin egg hatches in the cold Antarctic ice? What are the first years like for a baby elephant? [...] February 21, 2019
Notes on a Shipwreck “The sea gives and takes life, when it chooses to…” In hard times, when the scale of suffering moves from tragic to catastrophic, [...] February 19, 2019
Poet’s Corner: My One True Love Walk with me in bitter cold Walk with me in sun Walk with me until we’re old So we may die as one Walk with me ‘neath Luna’s glow [...] February 17, 2019
Poet’s Corner: My Love Look at me look passed my eyes and listen I do not love you because I have to or because I fear being alone or because time moving forward [...] February 14, 2019
The Beast’s Heart – Retelling the Classic Fairy Tale As remakes go, the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast perhaps holds the record. According to researchers at universities in Durham and [...] February 12, 2019