Thing Finder

Well this is embarassing. Having posted Stevenson's dedication in his A Child's Garden of Verses I recollected one of his poems whi...

From the dedication by RL Stevenson in his A Child's Garden of Verses to his childhood nanny. To Alison Cunningham From Her Boy For the...

And here is the alternate view of the drover's life to that presented by Banjo Paterson. In this case the parody is written by a real d...

Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson are two iconic Australian poets. Clancy of the Overflow is one of Paterson's more famous poems and know...

From Daniel J. Levitin's review of the book Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga in the August 22, 200...

A poem from For All the Lost and Lonely by Edward Dixon Garner. Reader He draws the curtain and turns out the light, Throws to the coals the...

I love Norman Rockwell's work but only just discovered this painting from early in his career: Crackers in Bed (1921). In our house the...

As far as I know, Norman Rockwell only wrote a single children's book (a pleasant little story Willie Was Different about a talented bir...

Pareto was an Italian economist and sociologist back at the turn of the last century and is most famous for the development of a technique t...

A wonderful essay by E.B. White of summertime, Once More to the Lake . Sample: I took along my son, who had never had any fresh water up his...