The Black Sheep Dances

Originally published in the New York Journal of Books, September 14, 2015.   Releases September 15, 2015. Super Better: A Revoluti...

2015 Maritime Reading Challenge Andrew Wyeth It's been ages since I've suggested a Reading Challenge, and this one is a...

“ The ideal reflecting pool is smaller, rather than larger…deep enough to suggest mystery and to sustain schools of minnows or other small f...

The Story of a Turbulent Friendship First off, who selected the photos for the cover art for this book?  Seriously, it sets the mood immedi...

Translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson "Everyday tasks:  wearing yourself out trying to find something new, a new word, a new...

Bye Bye Birdie Reuters reported in January that the thousands of starlings found dead near South Yankton, SD were the result of poisoning ...

City planning often seems to be a new concept: a trend towards community-oriented design features that are usually intended to better a neig...

Robert Belenky is a clinical child psychologist who has chosen to spend his time working to study the dynamics of children who are abandoned...

Everyone knows the television is going downhill fast, right? Surely we can look at this week’s episode of Jersey Shore (please don’t make m...

In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean “If I scare myself once every day, I’m a better person….It helps to have that l...

A True Story of War, Love, and Survival Detachable reference bookmark. Three little words that mean a great deal in this non-fiction tex...

Ever since The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns,  and Three Cups of Tea , I’ve found Afghanistan to be a strangely compelling region. ...

Roughly 60% of communication is non-verbal?  How can that be?  Katey from Argentina at one of my favorite blogs posted this interesting link...

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam ...