When Alix Thorssen was a little girl she encountered a wolf while working on her aunt’s sheep ranch. Years later, as an art gallery owner in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Alix receives, from the eccentric but talented painter Queen Johns, a... Read More

“Plain Living is a spiritual journey of discovery, a path to be followed, not a goal to be achieved.” So begins this gentle guide to living life from the spiritual center. The author, a practicing Quaker, focuses on what seems to... Read More

The metaphysical science of astrology offers a model of personality characteristics viewed through the lens of the heavens. Starting with the Sun, the “heart” of the personality, Astrology and Relationships takes the reader through... Read More

“What one person finds funny another person finds deranged,” states Robin Hemley, whose essay, “Relaxing the Rules of Reason,” opens this collection of works by humor writers, designed to help authors incorporate wit into all... Read More

To the outsider, war means decisive troop movements, big battles, and death from field injuries. While Surgeon William M. Smith observed all of these, his diary also bears witness to confused troop movement, death by preventable... Read More

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language,“ writes Aldo Leopold in A Sand County Almanac (1948). The... Read More

To borrow one of the author’s own metaphors, this guide removes the literary “straitjacket” from the Shakespeare canon. Through careful, thoughtful, and objective illumination of the work, the man, the time period, and the people... Read More

“Look up and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in; Lend a Hand.” This sentiment, from Edward Everett Hale, almost perfectly suits the author of Footnotes, except that in her case it would be “lend a foot,” for... Read More