As I've mentioned before , our family has a holiday tradition of supporting Heifer International by buying animals for all o...

        Here's an oddity.  This woodcut by Erhard Schön was published in 1538 in a book about the principles of proportion.  Presumab...

        Alison Gopnik, a leading researcher in the field of cognitive development, has been studying the importance of play for children....

        Potato printing used to be a staple of the preschool classroom, but in the current generation it seems to have been replaced by p...

        I could have titled this post another "What's new in the studio," because it's about the issue I'm struggli...

        In the classic fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast," the Beast is not very specifically described.  He's monstrous, he...

        Last weekend I was at an Open Studios show, and that means I was carving.  The first day I brought four little dog blocks to work o...

I dwell In a dark small cell Turbulent against walls Constricting smoke and flame, Fire, essence, into a coal which glows And g...

        The big storm left us unscathed, the costumes were finished in time for trick-or-treating, and now it's frantic last-minute p...