Midatlantic

This coming weekend I will be flying across the Atlantic to visit my family for a couple of weeks. This is the first time in many years tha...

So what did Dickens make of America? To say he was disappointed would be an understatement. He had started out on his journey with a mental...

 Charles Dickens by Boston artist Francis Alexander (1800-1880), Boston 1842  In honor of the 200 th anniversary of the birth of Charl...

I am on the tail end of my Robert Louis Stevenson reading jag, having made lots of detours along the way. I only have Treasure Island left...

Velma's last day Less than three months after we lost her sister, our brave sweet cat Velma has also left this mortal coil. A year of...

Still from "The Eligible Bachelor" an episode of the Granada TV series Sherlock Holmes I lived in London for almost eight year...

When I was growing up and would lament some lost opportunity, my dad used to quote to me from his favorite poem:     "The Moving Finge...