Dreamers Rise

There is now a website ( link here ) dedicated to the life and work of Guy Fleming, the artist and book designer responsible for, among othe...

I'm sure an oceanographer or geologist who had thought about the matter could come up with an explanation for why most of the stones on...

Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the artist and author Edward Gorey. As it happens, I can pinpoint my first encount...

The subject of my last post led me to anthropolgist Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence's 1997 book Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to S...

Ideally I should have posted this on St. Stephen's Day (December 26th according to the Western Christian calendar), but the elements did...

Moving to Maine has meant, among many other things, crossing into the range of the North American porcupine. We didn't see much of them ...

On a dreary afternoon, Harriet Carker pauses from her needlework to gaze at the scene outside her window. She often looked with compassion, ...

(Since a certain public figure is distasteful to me, I refuse to refer to him by name. We all know who "he" is.) Do something he ...

Michael Leddy of Orange Crate Art has asked about the words "class card" in the Arthur Crudup recording embedded in my last post ...

Anthony J. Martin, from the author's website : Burrows are a refuge from predators, a safe home for raising young, or a tool to ambu...

Libros del Asteroide in Barcelona has released the seventh in a series of slim, elegant volumes by the writer Eduardo Halfon. Like the other...

According to the art historian Theodore E. Stebbins, the American painter Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) devoted more than 120 canvases to...

From A Marsh Island: It was a famous day for crows: from one field after another a flight of them took heavily to their wings, and, as if un...

Since I have no billion-dollar media empire to protect, and since hardly anyone listens to me anyway, I have no hesitation in endorsing Kam...

Gillian Welch: About a month ago, my eye was drawn to a book that has sat mostly unread on my shelf for some time, ‘The Book of Disquiet’ ...

For whatever reason I've been listening to Gillian Welch a lot the last few weeks, and as it turns out she has a new record that has jus...

The writer Lore Segal has died; the New York Times has an obituary . Two of Segal's novels have been on and off my to-read list for yea...

Description of Item: Cash register receipt, La Fabrique de Bagel de Montréal Origin and Date of Item (if known): Montreal, Canada, August 8...

"Paean" isn't exactly an everyday word, but it's amusing to find it being confused with an even more obscure word, one tha...

The development where we live now is a relatively new one, and there are patches of recently disturbed "vacant" ground dotted arou...