Under the Gables

An Irish Country Doctor , and three other tales, An Irish Country Village, An Irish Country Christmas , and An Irish Country Girl , because ...

Christmas Morning by Carl Larsson, 1894 Do you have a passel of elementary school-age children that get rammy and wild indoors during the wi...

Pictures of my daughter at age 16 months having a ball running through the laundry.

My favorite laundry painting: Wash Day, A Back Yard Reminiscence of Brooklyn by William Merritt Chase, 1886. Artists have been captivated by...

Are the local aesthetic police afraid of this? It turns out that in some localities, hanging out the laundry in the backyard is forbidden by...

And God bless and keep you and yours throughout the new year.

The orphaned Ingemar in the train riding to northern Sweden to live with his uncle and aunt. My Life as a Dog is not really a Christmas mov...