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I’d forgotten how fun, even exciting, the early stages of research on a novel can be. This week I’ve gotten...

I know I'm supposed to believe that standardization, state or national rules, or anything beyond local control is of the...

February, not April, is the cruelest month. Ask anyone in the mid-Atlantic states who's been pummelled by snow for the...

Mark Twain, I believe, once wrote that there are two ways of lying artfully -- telling the truth but not...

Every time I hear about a shooting on a college campus, I wince. This one was especially surprising, given that...

I have just made my airline reservations to Fort Lauderdale for the middle of February. This is not a vacation...

Thanks to everyone who drew my attention Kerry Ann Rockquemore’s very interesting post on the myth of balance. As noted...

Starbuck, who’s seven, wanted to know the rest of the lyrics to the sea chantey “What Do You Do With...