Under the Gables

This is a painting by the great American painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Its title is Fresh Eggs , and it depicts a farm woman going to t...

See http://coffeeteabooksandme.blogspot.com/2007/06/summer-of-my-mary-heart.html for a contemplation on Mary and Martha. The painting is Ch...

The question is: Where is the milkman, now that we really need him? When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, bread, eggs, and milk were...

Jean Baptiste Chardin (1699-1779)was the great "genre" painter of 18th-century France, probably best known for his painting of a b...

Here is one of the pictures by Beatrix Potter that was my undoing. Thinking of the adorable mice in her books, I became too soft-hearted tow...

I know that there are thousands of self-help books on the market out there. To these books, some of which I have undoubtedly read, I have on...

I read Cold Sassy Tree on the recommendation of my mother, and her favorite in the book was Grandpa Blakeslee because of his love of life. ...