When you have all the answers about a building before you start building it, your answers are not true. The building gives you answers as it grows and becomes itself. -- Louis I. Kahn Accustomed to ...

My 11-year-old son recently reported with horror that the word "funner" has been added to the dictionary. "What's wrong with that?" I asked. He gaped. "IT'S NOT A WORD." "Sure it is," I said. "Little ...

When I wrote my first play "Crazy for Life," I had no idea what I was doing. Seriously. I had acted before but never written a one-person show, particularly one about my own experience living with ...

'Tis the season … so here's some unashamed regifting: a year-end roundup, featuring an all-star team whose members have appeared in these columns. First, my Uncle Ollie, who sent me his copy of the ...

Springfield's Karen Craigo is Missouri's new poet laureate. She will serve a two-year term. The appointment means a lot of in-state travel, particularly for Craigo, whose project is to collect a poem ...

David Cornwell is possibly one of the least known best-selling authors in the world. His novels tell tales of espionage and betrayal, thrilling millions of readers who know him by his pen name, John ...