Anecdotal Evidence

O ur dog has gotten too old to catch opossums. In his prime he could charge across the backyard, leap and grab the marsupial crawling along ...

“[P]erhaps poetry and romance are as plentiful as ever in the world except for those phlegmatic natures who I suspect would in any age have ...

Like most middle-class Americans I have lived a sheltered life. My needs and many of my wants have been satisfied. I was in a few fist fight...

In a 1951 letter to Bernard Berenson collected in Letters from Oxford (2006), the English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper writes:   “I, unlik...

One of the pleasures of living in Houston for a native Northerner is witnessing the panic that ensues when temperatures drop and snow or fre...

“[W]e learn to know human nature better through knowing him so well, and if we can acquire his habit of self-observation we too can enrich o...

“Nothing is promised. That is the bargain.”   In a high-school creative writing class, our teacher required us to write every day in a jo...