This post takes its title from a famous line in The Code of the Woosters (1938) by P.G. Wodehouse: "I could see that, if not a...

        Carroll Thayer Berry (1886 - 1978) made many wood and linoleum block prints with an emphasis on the sights of Maine, where he s...

        As you may have noticed, on Saturday the world failed to end again.  But while the "Rapture" has, in my opinion, no bas...

        Speaking of making the world a better place, Käthe Kollwitz was an artist who tried to do just that…  And unfortunately, her world w...

        I have a couple of school and library visits coming up, and I've been thinking a lot about the message I want to give kids.  I d...

         Haiku has never been my favorite style of poetry, as evidenced by one of my own flippant contributions to the genre:    What can yo...

        In my collection of block printed animal alphabets, Z is pretty much always for zebra.  That's partly because there aren't a...