"The Grotto," with bridge, winter, Lafayette Park, St. Louis

The Killer Angels is Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, which was the turning point in the Civil War. The narrative shifts among numerous commanding officers on both sides, with Longstreet and Chamberlain receiving the bulk of the attention...

A CRONE’S TALE FOR WINTER SOLSTICE Once upon a time, my children …as all stories begin the Wheel of the Year kept turning: moving out…moving in… There was day, when the sun traveled across the sky, there was night, when stars twinkled and the coyote cried. In the day we worked hard, we ploughed our soil deep, when night came, we told stories, made love and went to sleep...

A CRONE’S TALE FOR WINTER SOLSTICE Once upon a time, my children …as all stories begin the Wheel of the Year kept turning: moving out…moving in… There was day, when the sun traveled across the sky, there was night, when stars twinkled and the coyote cried. In the day we worked hard, we ploughed our soil deep, when night came, we told stories, made love and went to sleep...

"Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning." -- Martin Hiedegger