George Eliot was an English author who had to use a man’s name in order to be taken seriously as a writer.  Imagine that…on second thought, don’t let’s imagine that. She had to work at becoming an author.  Mary Ann, her real name,  penned the phrase  “It’s never…

In art appreciation at school, our teacher was fond of telling us that Vincent van Gogh said he would dream his paintings and then paint his dream. I could never paint worth a lick, but I was a pretty good dreamer, so I used to imagine having really…

Steve Bow said “God’s gift to us is more talent and ability than we’ll ever hope to use in our lifetime.  Our gift to God is to develop as much of that talent and ability as we can in this lifetime.” If you look around…if you pay attention…

We took a trip to the Dali Museum and at the risk of sounding like a philistine…well let’s just say it’s not my cup of tea. The building itself is interesting enough, now that’s damning with faint praise if ever I heard it, and there are those who…