This month I’m looking at the wide variety of words that end in - ception .  That’s not a root that means anything by itself in Eng...

        Next week we will be entering the lunar/Chinese Year of the Tiger (the water tiger, to be specific), and that always makes an excell...

         Sometimes I find fun stuff that is not exactly the subject of this blog, yet seems tangentially related - and certainly worth shari...

        Every year, the day that we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and message should be a reminder that we are still woefully far...

          It’s happening again: events that had been scheduled and planned and eagerly awaited are being cancelled due to the new covid surg...

        Every year when we have a nice snowfall I write a post with a theme of snow scenes.  And I never run out of pieces to share, because...

         José Francisco Borges (Brazil, b. 1935) is considered one of the foremost woodcut artists in Brazil, and he got his start making co...

         Some of our oldest, most basic foods can be found in salad dressing, including oil and vinegar.  So where do we get these words?  T...

         Today I have four block prints showing a variety of depictions of Christmas scenes.  Up first is a classic renaissance Holy Family ...