Today the two-tone blue Smith-Corona portable sits on a high shelf. I've owned it since I left for college, a young man with stories f...

Pietro Longhi's "The Confession" (1755). The Venetian artist painted the wealthy and poor of his day queuing to unburden t...

When I created this blog I vowed that there would be no political or religious opinions expressed herein. The reason for this is that I fee...

At this point  I suppose no one needs to heap praise upon or call further attention to Oprah Winfrey. Who is this woman? Just one of the ...

Life is odd. Horrible things can happen (like my ancestors owning human beings as slaves, see previous VWP post ), but from such horrible t...