It really is bliss on a chilly February evening to stay home and eat a home cooked dinner. I love to have friends over during the week in th...

The journal of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne  I love the Morgan Library in New York city.  I visit it every time I ...

I can't think of any television show from the 1970's that stands out more vividly in my memory than "Upstairs, Downstairs....

In 1910 E. M. Forster wrote in the novel "Howard's End, " " It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Sy...

I celebrated the New Year in the most unexpected place, Big Sur, California.  I went with my family to stay at the Ventana Inn in Big Sur ...