Cultures around the world invest their languages with taboos so that some words are considered "bad."  Most commonly, ...

        While we're on the topic of big things, how about the biggest wood block print in the world?  According to the Guinness Book ...

        This is the time of year when people in the US are turning their thoughts to big birds.  The turkey, as you may know, was almost ou...

        Julius Griffith (1912-1997) was a Canadian artist, who also spent a chunk of his life in England.  He has a very distinctive style ...

        One of the most popular Victorian poets, though not always considered in that light, is W.S. Gilbert, the librettist half of Gilber...

        Do you know the fable of the Sun and the North Wind?         The Sun and the North Wind were having an argument over which of t...

        This weekend was another Open Studios show and for me it was the biggest sales weekend in years.  Yay!  A portion of those sales ...

        I know I'm a little late for Hallowe'en, but this seems as good a time as any to share a theme D, my brother, and I were ...

        Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is not, on the whole, an artist whose work I admire.  As one of the founding members of "D...