If you'll forgive the possibly distasteful metaphor, I feel as if I'm in an iron lung. I need air and movement. The interminable ...

When I carried a bag out to the garbage cans in the street tonight, I stopped and listened for a moment to the rain dropping. We so ra...

Le Silence, Odilon Redon Le Silence  is the title of the above painting by the French artist Odilon Redon. I won't ever forget the...

and by "cool," I don't mean the weather, although I hear it's pretty hot down there, too. Despite the fact that my bes...