Under the Gables

Yale University professor Amy Chua stirred up a lot of controversy in the last month with her January 8 article in the Wall Street Journal ...

January Morning, John Fabian Carlson February, Tres Riches Heures of the Duc de Berry, 1410 Detail, Winter Landscape with Skaters, Pieter Br...

My Little Daughter Dorothy by William Merritt Chase, 1894. William Merritt Chase has once again inspired me, thanks to this painting in whic...

Karin Larsson, by Carl Larsson, 1909 The genesis of this blog was a search on the Internet to investigate the effects on children of a physi...

The Newborn, by Georges de la Tour, 1645 "What we shall be asked to give is our flesh and blood, our daily life -- our thoughts, our se...

“I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to tu...