I have been reading a collection of essays titled Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice: From Loncheras to Lobsta Love . Altho...

Peter Lovesey's Beau Death -- number 17 in the Detective Peter Diamond series -- was published a while back, but I've just read it...

Buttermilk Roast Chicken -- from Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat (recipe  online here ). We enjoyed Samin Nosrat's Net...

The Madonna of the Victories by Andrea Mantegna (1496) Oil & Tempera on Canvas, Louvre Museum, Paris. The history of this stunning ...

It's still good weather for staying home and reading here in Michigan. However, we did manage to take a walk in the half-frozen, f...

"Today's Special" is a pretty ordinary movie about an Indian-American man named Samir and how he finds his roots. It has a few...

Photo of the Yiddish Book Center ( https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/ ) in Amherst, Massachusetts. (2003). The architecture echoes the lo...

"Mural Monday" is a blogging event where a large number of lovers of street art share images on blogs from around the world. I...

Do you believe that some individuals have a second sight, or clairvoyance, or can read other people's minds? Stephen King's 1977 w...

First: this wonderful gift -- a Mona Lisa Scrubee. Plus Starry Night too. Thanks Arny & Tracy! My kitchen in January has seen a lar...