Sometimes I'm amazed by the beauty of a few perfect marks… but other times I find beauty in the breathtaking complexity of an...

        Sometimes all the details in the world can't capture the spirit better than a few simple strokes.  I'm normally not a few-s...

        Hallowe'en is nearly upon us, and it's time you were prepared for some of the more unusual words that might haunt you at thi...

Death takes the Duke in the very act of turning away from the pleas of a poor woman and child.          Totentanz is German for Dance ...

     Walter de la Mare's poem "The Listeners" was one of the first longer poems I memorized, having fallen in love with its e...

     I spent this past weekend sitting at a table carving, surrounded by my wares, while I waited for my adoring public to purchase armload...

        I recently finished reading The Storyteller's Pack: A Frank R. Stockton Reader , and Ting-a-Ling .  I read them because I had se...