Please, Sir … This week’s quotation comes from an insightful 2002 biography of Charles Dickens […]

The Last Frontier Dave, having spent virtually his entire youth in the eastern United States, […]

Memories … As the end of the year approaches, we often spend time both looking […]

Peace, Land, Bread Our daughter, Becca, who also constructs acrostics and is our initial beta […]

Water, Water, Everywhere: Dive In! Welcome, new solvers.  For the last few years, our extended […]

Homeward Bound The Odyssey enjoys a richly deserved prime spot in our literary canon.  Homer’s […]

What’s Opera, Doc? Big voices, big egos, big emotions, big budgets: opera goes all out.  […]

How We Got Here We have all seen images like the one above, suggesting a […]

Rising Sun Like many Americans who have visited Japan, we have experienced initial “Lost in […]

Houston, We’ve Had a Problem By the time Apollo 13 launched from Cape Kennedy in […]