THREE PYRAMIDS and ONE BRIGHT STAR: THREE MAGI and ONE BRIGHT STAR. THREE KINGS OF ORIENT FOLLOWING A STAR. Actually there was an...

How close are these languages? Linear B has been deciphered and translated by 1952 by Michael Ventris.  It consists of 90 syllable signs...

THESE GIANT SEQUOIA are 3200 years old: Sequoias are the oldest living trees on earth. THEY STAND FOR US. THEY WILL FALL WHEN WE FALL....

Names are actually very important. They tell us marvelous things about ourselves. They give history.  Therefore, as someone who loves...

The sun stood smack at the top of 49th today.  Well, I walked out my door and turned toward Broadway. And there it was. Giant red ball...

And suddenly he was there. Over the white heat of the planet’s noontime some few avenues of trees gave shade and respite to the voyager....

I open this drawer at least five times a day: for this fork, for that spoon – no, this one.  And when I open, and when I close, there it...

In the ballroom, music signaled Rex had one hour before meeting Komus. “Do you know who I am?” His familiar voice floated over the music,...

…AS the search for an incredible woman evolves into a magical journey capable of challenging its twenty-first century characters, readers...

Last July while I was waiting for a review of this story from Lisa, instead I received word from her daughter, ANN FRENCH, that her...

Madeleine happy under the Lion Gate at scary Mycenae Madeleine at Mycenae with Clay figurines The Pleiades where Meriope lives for now My...

I wish I could begin this with:  “It was a dark and stormy night…” . But I cannot because then I would not have been able to see the main...

27 Co2 — The Gas of Life! HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2015! Found throughout the known universe and throughout this planet in most unexpected...

15 In the foothills of Mount Vesuvius lives and works a brave and foresighted wine-maker of historic wines: Antonio Mastroberardino. When...

10 Amazing things… “Wonderful things…” reaching for and touching the sun god. 91 years ago, late November, 1922, Howard Carter,...

This morning, the day before Thanksgiving, 2013, I went to Jensen’s Market, Palm Springs’s finest foods market. I went to see my friend...

6 For Dionysos let us be thankful. For this god of civilization, rising from the east, traveling ever westward, rising with the sun,...

In 51 BC Julius Caesar was conquering Gaul, before inventing Champagne. And in 1984 AD Antonio Mastroberardino was conquering Yosemite...

1 Champagne at Julia Child Memory Lane luncheon in Denver, Nov. 13, 2013 Sunday, a week ago today, I traveled Memory Lane to host again...