There is a strong impression of the same old story of the Troubles in Belfast, all over again. The new…

4,915. And rising. This number can only increase or, at best, stay the same. It can never go down. Of…

Unlike Bob Dylan who is still actively making music, Leonard Cohen has not released a new song from beyond the…

I have always been a creative person. When I was a child I loved to draw and cut paper, my…

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. And that is poetry. As I needed it.  John Cage…

In the morning before waking, I dream of vast empty plains of flatland and red undulating weather systems in the…

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle, The Nicomachean…

I yearn for Six Nations matches at this time of year. Despite my worthier self, I cannot take my eyes…

When the Federal Convention of 1878 had completed its work on the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin described its…