Skeptophilia

A post I did a couple of weeks ago , about my view that creativity is a relationship (and thus inherently subjective, in the sense that each...

Ernest Hemingway famously said, "There isn’t any symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea .  The sea is the sea.  The old man is an old man...

In the 1992 Winter Olympics , there was an eighteen-year-old French figure skater named Laëtitia Hubert .  She was a wonderful skater, even ...

When educational budgets are cut -- which they are, every year -- inevitably what is hit the hardest are programs for the arts, music, theat...

All my life, I've been pulled by two opposing forces. One of them is the chaos-brain I described in yesterday's post, which I seem t...

I got a curious response to my post a couple of days ago, about magical and/or supernatural explanations not actually being explanations at ...

One of the most brilliant and startlingly original composers who ever lived was Ludwig van Beethoven . He was capable of deep, stirring path...

I've wondered for years why certain pieces of music elicit such a powerful emotional response. Partly that's because I react powerfu...

My grandmother was born in Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania, a little village in the Allegheny hill country in the southwestern corner of the state....