In its enthusiasm for other languages’ words, English sometimes adopts a foreign word multiple times over the centuries, ending up ...

        In 1934 the work of seven of Costa Rica’s leading printmakers was collected in a portfolio  entitled Grabados en Madera ( Woodcu...

        I’d like to share with you one of my early literary masterpieces, a short story entitled The Happy Little Elephant .  Here it is:...

        Here is one of my newest pieces, based on Rembrandt’s The Philosopher in Contemplation , but with some twists of my own.  First o...

        Here’s a pleasing wood block print by Frances Hammel Gearhart (USA, 1869-1958).  The RISD Museum, where I saw this piece, explain...

        This sonnet by George Meredith (UK, 1828-1909) is mythic. On a starr’d night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark domin...

        Today is the birthday of Queen Elizabeth I of England (she would be 485 years old), born a princess who never expected to become ...

        We recently had the opportunity to see the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon,” which had funny moments, and dark moments, and an...

        Here’s something to consider: English famously has a huge vocabulary, extraordinarily rich in expressing fine shades and distinctio...