Under the Gables

Doing dishes is a more enlightening task when there's a rainbow in the sink, which comes from the morning sun grazing this crystal bo...

When I came into my dimmed kitchen in the late afternoon, I noticed that the apples were lit up, sitting in a pool of light that limited ...

George Washington with the Marquis de Lafayette (center) and Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, Washington's aide-de-camp, at Yorktown, by Char...

Rooftops by Charles Newman, 2010 (Click on the painting to see it in a large size.) I saw this painting this past weekend at an exhi...

  Portsmouth Street by Childe Hassam, 1917   It turns out that Americans who can afford them are getting tired of McMansions--the ex...

It won't take you but an evening to read Lillian Smith's Memory of a Large Christmas , but it will be a memorable one. A writer of...

I am happy to report that this book lived up to its cover, which is a relief  since that's why I bought it last February, and then I ...