It’s official: I have now lived in Sullivan County longer than I have lived anywhere else.  Celebrating this happy milestone, I remember how forlorn but full of promise our derelict …

Do you see faces in inanimate objects? The phenomenon known as pareidolia is quite common in human experience—for example, seeing animal shapes in clouds or face-like patterns in the grain of a …

Among the many pleasures December brings, I look forward to the Merriam-Webster annual announcement of the “word of the year,” the word most often looked up on the dictionary’s …