Fourteen Flowers and a Manatee

Having recently moved to Canada, I want to share two poems written by visitors from centuries past. The first was  published in 187...

Once when she was little, my friend Tatjana dreamt about fishes.  They were beguiling and menacing and they sang a song: Wir...

I've been happy to find some more good reporting on the human angle in Ukraine.  It comes from Dmitry Galko, a journalist working for th...

This morning, I read yet another a media report casually mentioning the "allegiances of eastern Ukrainians", as if the people ther...

"Katyusha" was originally a Russian World War II song, and later became a song of the Italian Resistance.  It's only taken he...

The enchanted bookstore, vast, rectangular, Fluorescent-lit, with Bach piped through The glamorous alleys of its angular Warren ...

[Thanks to DM and AMB on G+ for corrections on this post.] My family wanted to bring their own song to a potluck carol singalong, so they a...