Reflection and Remembrance Most historians mark the end of the Vietnam War as having occurred […]

Native Tongues According to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people […]

Can Something be Gained in Translation? In God’s Secretaries, Adam Nicolson presents the extraordinary history […]

The Modern Prometheus If you could magically meet someone from history, whom would you choose?  […]

Voice of the Violin Even without having read Proust, many people are aware that his […]

Food For Thought Last spring, we offered an acrostic based on a quotation from Christina […]

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 […]