Under the Gables

Yes, I found this movie shocking, and here's why: 1. Two young people get married, even though the woman is not pregnant. 2. When she do...

Michael Keaton in Mr. Mom gives his kids a bath. Cleaning was not his strong suit. According to an article in today's Financial Times ...

Mothers back to work earlier than they had planned. My neighbor has two wonderful children, toddler twins, a boy and a girl. When they were ...

Gustav Flaubert I recently read Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert because various critics that I respect kept referring to it and its style ...

See Tea at Trianon for Saint Patrick's beautiful prayer, the Cry of the Deer (or Saint Patrick's Breastplate). This is one of my fa...

Self-Portrait of Jan Steen: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age Reached for his comments on the many economic and social problems that afflict ...