For reasons unknown, Middle Eastern cooking never quite achieves the moniker of “next new thing” in Western culinary circles. Might it be the dressed-down approach taken by hummus- and tabbouleh-serving earth mothers in their natural... Read More

Mid-life crises are fairly well-known in these days of too many choices and too little time. Quarter-life crises are perhaps less talked about, but just as significant, according to author Christine Hassler. Hassler, a life coach and... Read More

One dark and fateful night in 1886, eight-year-old Maelle Gallagher’s world changed forever. After a tenement fire claims the lives of her Irish-immigrant parents, and she and her siblings, Mattie and Molly, are sent west for adoption... Read More

Perhaps God could create the world in His image in only six days; it took slightly longer for three mortal men to totally remake it in theirs. The three were the most powerful leaders in the world—Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin and... Read More

The eventful third book in the Honor Bound series "Righting Time" extends the adventures of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers into a future both strange and familiar. Time travel is controlled by refined psychically able people from... Read More

On June 1, 1967, the pop music world was “turned upside-down, its resultant sounds proving to be the shape of all things to come,” with the release of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the author writes. Often... Read More

“The fundamental obligation of a funeral is to provide an opportunity for the living to confront their dead and to dispose of them in a way that’s other than the way we dispose of a rock or a rhododendron,” writes Thomas Lynch, a... Read More

“Where the fields are sharply green, where a wild beauty hides in the glens … for the first time I see the face of the Irish countryside.” — H. V. Morton That small island in the Atlantic Ocean exerts a strong pull on the heart... Read More