Everybody loves the sound of chirping birds. There's something soothing and peacefull about waking up in the morning to the sound of bir...

I just bought a water pen and I'm delighted with it! How long have these been around? How come I never heard of them before? I only dis...

The reason is that the normal human attention span for just about anything is probably only two or three minutes. When the limit is...

The more I hear about podcasting the more I like it. What it amounts to is radio that you can listen to at any time, almost anywhere, with n...

Here's the book (above) that influenced me more than any other: "Hamlet." I'd read Shakespeare in school and liked it but...

This piece might just as well have been titled, "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DINNER PARTIES?" or "THE CURSE OF THE FINICKY EATERS....

I'm in a hurry so I'll put up these illustrations by Dean Cornwell without comment. I have a first edition of the hard-to-find clas...