First things first: in this essay I introduce my new lyrics and adapted tune for an underrated song by the underrated British songwriter,...

As I said on Christmas Eve, I decided to experiment with a “12 days of Christmas” series on the blog this year. One song a day, some with...

Here, in honor of the solstice just passed, are some new lyrics for one of the most beautiful song I know: Björk’s “Vökuró” from her...

Recently I asked my dentist—with whom I have chatted about teeth and sports for years—how long he thought it would take his office to get...

In the first and second sections of this three-part post—introduced here and expanded from an article in the Encyclopedia of American...