“Painting is in the mind. Art is not a matter of gender, but of the intellect,” said Leonardo daVinci, trying to dispel the myths that are believed even today: that paintings executed by women radiate a feminine aura, and are... Read More

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, forty-three percent of all new U.S. marriages end in divorce. In this uncertain climate, contemporary American poetry about married life inhabits a terrain of the soul that ranges... Read More

Following the trail of Lewis and Clark while researching this novel, the author came upon a white rock near Decision Point, the spot where a group of white explorers took the humble advice of Sacajawea, one of their interpreters and the... Read More

One of this book’s most important virtues is the balance that the author achieves in her approach to her subject. Her fair-mindedness lends authority to her commentary on human interaction (often dangerously close interaction) with... Read More

As a person reaches the late middle years of life, the push and pull of personal connections inform the decisions she makes, decisions that will change the course of her remaining years. In the author’s third short story collection,... Read More

You need a license to drive a car, but anyone of childbearing age can become a parent. No training or education is required, but parents in need of help can go to the bookstore, only to be confronted with a bewildering array of books on... Read More

“Maybe Soupy’s greatest gift was that he was the first entertainer who made us feel hip without wishing we were grown-ups,“ one of Sales’s admirers says of the comic’s early TV show for kids. Those old enough to remember the... Read More

“Dinnertime comments such as ‘Getting chubby, aren’t we?’ will not win you a Parent of the Year award,” says the author, founder of the nationally acclaimed House of Hope center for troubled teens in South Florida. She... Read More