Kristin Berkey-Abbott

Here we are at the end of April. I only made it through 20 days of writing a poem a day. More thoughts on that later, perhaps. I'm tr...

I've been fascinated by the e-mails written by the Goldman Sachs executives, especially VP Fabrice Tourre . Anyone who invents a monik...

Today is Carolyn Forche's birthday. In this blog post , Charles Jensen asks, "Is anyone in my generation not indebted to 'The...

Today is the birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft, most famous for her Vindication of the Rights of Woman . I read about Wollstonecraft before I ...

I got my contributor copy of In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself this week. It's volume 8 in a series that explores what i...

Here my spouse, Carl, introduces the new dulcimer to the old fiddle. I like this shot, the warm woods, the upholstered surfaces. Can he real...

I've wanted a dulcimer for many years. I spent my adolescent years on both sides of the Blue Ridge (first in Charlottesville , Virginia...