LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC

January 14th marks the Indian festival of Makar Sankranti (and variations of spelling). This is a mid-winter Hindu festival in India and N...

HAITI EMERGENCY RELIEF - You can donate via Paypal at the link, and avoid putting your credit card details on-line. As I cast around for id...

I noticed the name of a well-known American mentalist among today's birthdays : The Amazing Kreskin. I did a little light research which...

Her birthday was yesterday. Pat Benatar, who some have called "Queen of Rock" reigned in the late 1970s to early 1980s, and main...

BACK-TRACKING Tracing one's family history can become addictive, though at times frustrating. While organising a narrative and plan, tid...

CARL SANDBURG & HOWARD SPRING : From this side of the Atlantic: Carl Sandburg , Pulitzer prize winner for his poetry and for a biograp...

My husband handed me a newspaper article the other day, it reported the death of caricaturist David Levine: "Here's someone for y...

Reading around various websites and forums recently, I got the feeling that people, in some perverse way, seem to be at best concentrating o...

Among the contents of a box of second-hand astrology books I bought on E-bay years ago was a slim, large format soft cover volume, published...

There's a three-part series starting tomorrow evening on PBS: The Human Spark hosted by the always engaging Alan Alda (Aquarius Sun/Ar...

Featured today, a pair of "divas" (or is it divae?) born within days of each other -4 January and 8 January 1937: Grace Bumbry, A...