Anecdotal Evidence

Weeds I can’t name crowd the front garden, adding to the lushness of our greenery. In Houston, if you’re not picky, gardens grow themselves,...

Here’s a book I haven’t read in some sixty years: Antony van Leeuwenhoek and His ‘Little Animals’ by Clifford Dobell, published in 1932 by H...

Like the rest of us, poets often favor certain times of the year. They return to a season or month they find thematically or emotionally ric...

I think we both sensed it might be our final conversation. We talked about the Cleveland we knew as kids – the main library downtown on Supe...

In 1950, the poet J.V. Cunningham translated from the French a work by the seventeenth-century Jansenist Pierre Nicole, “An Essay on True an...

“But to politicks and literature there must be an end.”   Leave it to Dr. Johnson to remind us of the vanity of our wishes. Human striving...

The poet W.S. Di Piero introduces Montaigne without mentioning his name: “‘Essay’ has embedded in it ‘assay,’ ‘weighing,’ ‘testing,’ ‘proof...