No matter how darn organized you are, it is likely there is at least one person on your Christmas shopping list who has stopped you dead in your (very tired by now) tracks. As will this poem by regular contributor and razor-sharp wit David Feela...
Google “last minute Xmas gifts” and 100s of ideas show up, among my favorites: a gift of your time, like offering to babysit for your friends’ progeny; tickets to a sporting event or concert; a charitable donation in a friend or loved one’s name; or...
The term "solstice" means "sun stands still." On the year's two solstices (winter and summer) the sun appears to halt in its incremental journey across the sky but change little in position during this time....
The holiday season is all about bringing family and friends together, in part to share festive meals. Whether it is a traditional feast or a simple gathering of your closest loved ones, food is often the star of the show. After all: “One cannot think...
Family, Fun, Football and Feast! The start of the holiday trifecta in nut shell: Thanksgiving. Question on the (groaning) table: What are you grateful for? Who will you miss at your banquet? Regular contributor and poet extraordinaire Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer answers with her moving...
Thanksgiving. The holiday evolved into a story of traditions old and new, a day of family, friends old and upcoming, feasting and football. While all that is good, is it good enough? Shouldn’t Thanksgiving be about more, a day to forget about horrifying headlines and...
"Berkeley Plantation, VA: The autumn sun was rapidly dropping toward the broad James River when two pieces of reddish baked clay, each not much larger than a thumbnail, emerged from the Virginia mud. Mark Horton, an archaeologist from the UK’s University of Bristol, gave the...
"All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain" is a chronological account of the best of the Bard's worst – rogues, thieves and sociopaths. The production was written by the man who stars in the show, easily one of America's most celebrated classical...
No doubt John Patrick Shanley is one dark dude, who writes himself on to the stage - just like painters tend to paint bits and pieces of their inner selves onto canvas. Born in the Bronx in 1950, Shanley likes to call attention to his...
And the beat goes on...
