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Sharon Wildwind This morning we’re starting with a pop quiz. How old was dancer Martha Graham when she created and danced what critics calle...

by Julia Buckley One of the fun things about teaching literature is that I have the opportunity to examine certain texts again and again, an...

I love to research. Having hopped a slow moving train once, I knew I had to jump off before it got going too fast, and there have been few ...

By Lonnie Cruse This weekend our country celebrates its annual birthday. Picnics, fireworks, swimming parties, you name it. Much of the coun...

Elizabeth Zelvin For some it’s mountains, for others, a big sky. For me, the essential landscape is the ocean, preferably the Atlantic off N...

Sandra Parshall TV and movies may be aimed mostly at young men these days, but if publishers and booksellers are wise, they’ll go after the ...

Sharon Wildwind Since I’ve written about writing being a time battle for the last three weeks, I figured this past week it was time to walk ...

by Julia Buckley I once had a part-time job which involved reading restaurant menus from all over the country and highlighting new dishes; m...

by Sheila Connolly I've always enjoyed rules. It's nice to have something to follow, to know where you stand, to have a standard to ...

By Lonnie Cruse Sigh, ALL of my favorite television series ended this season with huge cliff-hangers. White Collar, NCIS, NCIS LA, The Clos...