Widower's Tango

"In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of the ordered arrangement of atoms, ions or molecules in a crystalline m...

I was lying in bed when my girlfriend, who was watching the Filipino network news in the sala, came to me and told me that an American, ...

One of the few advantages that comes from growing old is having some experience of life from which to draw precedents. Remembering the p...

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) Poor Robert Frost has been pulled in so many directions in the fifty years since hi...

I found myself unexpectedly moved at the start of this week when the news of the death of actress Margot Kidder was announced. Was it a re...

Are we supposed to be grateful for birthdays because they force us, if only for one day a year, to examine our lives? This may be true of mo...

I first heard of Alan Bennett when he was one of the quartet of wits (Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller) who made up Beyond the Frin...