BLUE DUETS

  I made Bill the ultimate chocolate cake for his birthday.  You only find the recipe for the Devil's Food Cake Cockaigne in old edition...

Why do human beings continue to create art?  Especially now, when democracy and the rule of law are under such threat in many places in the ...

I'm working on an essay about the trees in my life.  There was a cherry tree in the yard of the old woman next door:  she let me climb u...

Dear scammer, I don't even know where to begin.  Shall I say that the internet was designed to bring people together?  To create communi...

Ah, spring on the prairies!  As the snow melts, almost green edges of grass appear.  So does the grime of winter:  the few leaves we never g...

  Am I really going to start another blog post with the words "It's been a terrible week for the world:  everyone will suffer from ...

Psychologists have identified five characteristics of most people's temperaments.  The shorthand goes like this:  extroversion, neurotic...

Imagine creating a cubist portrait of someone you love or know very well. Cubism would give you the chance to capture the myriad aspects of ...

I want to hibernate. I want to gather myself a pile of good books--upbeat or reflective books, not a tough critique of the human condition a...

I could begin this blog post in a number of places.  I could tell you about watching The Great Escaper Sunday night with incandescent perfor...