I am in the midst of five days of guest teaching 20 classes worth of eighth graders about why Shakespeare’s language is the way i...

        My most recent piece is a blending of several of my favorite themes: books, little towns, magic…  This has actually been in the wor...

        Mythical creatures beginning with D are a little sparser, but on the other hand, any letter that has dragons doesn’t need much el...

        Today is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday (207 years ago), and to celebrate I’ve got a few wood engravings illustrating some of his wor...

        Oh, say can you C… chimera - a lion-like beast with a snake’s head at the tip of its tail and a goat’s head growing out of i...

        Tomorrow I start my workshop on Shakespeare’s language with our town’s eighth grade as they begin their A Midsummer Night’s Dream...

        For some reason the letter B is particularly richly endowed with mythical creatures.  As I said before, today’s list is in no way...

        I haven’t done anything alphabetic in a while, and this morning it suddenly seems like a good idea to do a series of some of the ...

        In honor of the New Year, I have today some images of interesting fireworks effects from the seventeenth century.  Alas, these ar...