Before starting my  Today's blogpost for Blogchatter's Half-Marathon, would like to pass on my greetings to all the TEACHERS out there on the occasion of TEACHER… Read More

A Ramble, Centaurs and Andromeda · Centaurs RevisitedI take it that Hercules and Iason lived before the Trojan War, which occurred around 1180 BC. This is not fool proof, since one of… Read More

Natural systems and animals have been inspiring people for ages. Water, wind and worms are teaching us many new lessons to help caretake our ailing planet. For example, Portland-based&nbs… Read More

I’m in the intense period of writing my book with a March 1 deadline looming, so posts are going to be very spotty over the next few weeks, but today, I needed a break from my ploughme… Read More

*From climate fires and insect epidemics to megadroughts and climate hurricanes, man-made global heating is terrifying! All hands on deck. This Monday evening, sa… Read More

The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan is a bleak and haunting novel that brings together a brutally adept and aging killer with a venerable and lonely sheriff's deputy in Copper Country, Montana. Betwe… Read More

The Bundelas gave their names to a dialect of Hindi and an entire geo-cultural region and left behind a legacy of art, architecture and folklore – and yet their living story was one of… Read More

Last year, I wrote an extensive post on Plough Monday, which is the first Monday after Epiphany: The English tradition of Plough Monday I thought I had covered the waterfront with regard to… Read More

Theodore RooseveltApril 23, 1910 at the Sorbonne - Paris, FranceThe Full Speech TextStrange and impressive associations rise in the mind of a man from the New World who speaks before this au… Read More

In Romania, the winter holiday season is truly in full-swing from December 24 to January 7. Highlights include: Christmas Day, New Year and Epiphany, with their respective eves. The most imp… Read More

PRAYER OF THE CHURCHCollectO God, who adorned the Priest Saint Raymondwith the virtue of outstanding mercy and compassionfor sinners and for captives,grant us, through his intercession,that… Read More