An Hour A Day

I used to begin every new year at a poetry writing retreat held at a convent in New Jersey. What better way to begin a new year than by writ...

My favorite philosopher is Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). By this I don't mean that he put forward my favorite philosophy , that his...

Our Enchanted Spaces course took us from London to Paris on the Eurostar train that speeds at 180 mph under the English Channel, by far the ...

Most of my friends know that of all the books ever written in the history of the world, my most beloved are the Betsy-Tacy books of Minnesot...

Confession time: I've never liked the children's books of Roald Dahl. With the exception of The BFG , which did win me over with it...

On our day trip from London to Oxford, we went in search of a little girl who fell down a rabbit hole into Wonderland. Well, we went in sear...

Even though my students were wild with excitement about our visit to the Warner Brothers Harry Potter film studios west of London, I wasn...