Annals Of The Hive

I woke up this morning in a new world. Last night, I learned Michigan used to be on the equator. It was completely covered by warm, salt w...

Winter lasts longer on this side of the lake. At least it seems to. And we've been traveling in the ice and snow more this year than w...

I woke up early and went down to the Corner Bakery for a cup of coffee. I sat at the window, next to a table of Russians. I couldn't u...

My daughter was home today, complaining about having to get out of bed because the maid was coming. The maid's a woman from Brazil. Her ...

In 1926, the Russian film maker, Vsevolod Pudovkin, created one of film's most famous metaphors by cutting back and forth between images...

The power went out in our neighborhood late this afternoon. Still light enough with the shades up to search for candles and the kerosene lam...

Sitting in my wife's car in the garage tonight, lights on, windshield wipers going, it's easy to see how people get depressed. I...

A long time ago, I told my son, I think he was in the first grade then, that Kenneth Patchen's The Wolf Of Winter was about the winter ...

Scientists have figured out those big lizards called  Komodo Dragons are poisonous. When they tear into their prey, the snake-like venom in ...

 A new female condom is coming on the market. The FC2 Female Condom is made with a soft material for quieter use. Its orig...

Are dialogue, collaboration and appropriation "the lifeblood of all great art” and "the very quintessence of culture itself” as ha...