I visited Seattle’s Pike Place Market today. It sprawls over nine acres at the base of the city where Seattle…
Something to think about next time you’re editing your own work. This week on waggish.org: Pick a work of literature…
Spring is magic in so many ways: buds popping from dead looking branches, color pushing its way up through bleak…
May Day and all I can think about is the end of the month. Help me! I’m making a trip…
I attended a writer’s conference yesterday. Early on I was engaged to host one of the presenters; to make him…
What a lovely idea. Take a group of people who are largely forgotten by today’s society, give them purpose, an…
I think a good follow-up to tax day last week is a quick examination of world affairs, in particular a focus…
At the beautiful Cafe Imperial in Prague, one may buy a tray of stale doughnuts for 2,000 crowns ($60 American) and throw them…
OK— I confess I have not been drawn into the obsession with American Idol. Nearly all of my friends are…
Taiwanese director, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s newest work is based on a 1956 film by Lamorisse, but a much more delicate piece…