Midatlantic

Image courtesy of Ian Kahn at freedigitalphotos.net Like most people, every year at this time I make a bunch of New Year’s resolutions. I d...

Listening to the Arctic wind wuthering around our house last night, the words that came to my mind were the first words of the poem by Chri...

Everyone has a picture of the perfect Christmas in their head. We may fail to reach it in practice, but we continue to hold onto a vision o...

All creative people get frustrated when life takes over and leaves them no time to express themselves. For me that feeling is never more ac...

This afternoon’s discussion of ballet on National Public Radio reminded me of a scene in Book 1 of Albion’s Millennium when Celia’s marri...

Isn’t it great when you discover a book that you want to recommend to everyone you meet? That’s what I feel about Wolf Hall , a novel by Hi...

Everywhere I go I meet people who say to me, A You work at home? Oh, I couldn’t do that – I’d never do any work.” But I’m here to tell you ...