Not surprisingly, we have lots of words with their origins in stories, especially the names of characters.  Widely-known stories ar...

         I certainly don’t think of Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, Italy, 1488/90-1576) as a printmaker.  However, he was well aware of the value...

        Here’s a children’s book illustrator who’s practically a neighbor of mine here in eastern Massachusetts, although I only just discov...

         Valentine’s Day is coming up next week, so here is a pair of romantic woodcuts from nineteenth century India.  Since I’m no expert ...

         Hale Aspacio Woodruff (USA, 1900-1980) was a painter whose most famous work is the set of Amistad Mutiny Murals at Talladega Colleg...

         Sure I’m a little late for the lunar New Year celebrations, but I’m happy to celebrate rabbits every year, and every time of year. ...

         If you ask an English speaker to define the word frog , most would presumably think immediately of the tailless amphibian of the fa...

         How long have you been writing?  Authors hear this question a lot, and it arose again during the author question-and-chat period fo...

         I love the moon, and I’m hardly alone in this.  The moon has exerted a more-than-gravitational pull on humans since the first time ...