I keep reading about the new Emily Dickinson show at the Morgan Library& Museum in Manhattan and I can't wait to see it.  It...

Last Friday, the first day of 2016, I sent the following letter to the Public Editor of The New York Times .    I knew I was beating a de...

Paro, an interactive robot that calms people with dementia-- Beck- Agence France Press I have seen the future, and it is robots. ...

(This was originally posted in April of 2010, but a comment about it from Jenny the Pirate arrived just a few days ago and in...

Last Saturday we were in New York, staying down at the bottom of Fifth Avenue, a stone’s throw from Washington Square Arch, which lo...

You know how, in World War II, the Marines employed Navajo code talkers to transmit radio messages because no one ...

I’ve said it before:   my favorite time is when I sit down in the morning with my first cup of coffee and start to read ...

--> The three verified images of Elizabeth Keckley            Last Thursday I got on a plane for Miami, just missing the bli...