GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher)

At Twilight Introduce me to the woman Whose apt arthritic fingers wove The the lace handkerchief peeking From beneath a regal sleeve. ...

It's not invariable or set in stone or always true, but I think I like people who have never completed college. I say this based on a ne...

It's one of those confetti mornings -- nothing on the front burner, but a few little tickles of color.... -- The gimme goliaths may ...

Neuroscience can't tell you what beauty is, but if you find it beautiful the medial orbito-frontal cortex is likely to be involved, yo...

Construction by Ian Wright Those wishing to add impact to their dulled, handkerchief-twisting laundry list of good-ol'-days despairs...

The rhythmic roar began at about 4:45 this morning. Rich, my son-in-law, was in the driveway doing what he could to extricate his Mustang co...

WURZBURG, Germany, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- German police said a nightclub was evacuated when a woman doused herself with pepper spray that ...

Passed along in email ... not perfectly argued, but perfectly enough argued to make me wince and shudder at the works perpetrated in "G...

A flock of starlings fly over an agricultural field near the southern Israeli city of Netivot, February 12, 2014. The starlings migrate ...

The editor-in-chief of Libération , a left-leaning French newspaper co-founded in 1973 by existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, has d...

Like pellets from a shotgun shell... -- If everyone were "wise," what would become of "wisdom?" And if everyone is ...

Strange to think that if a group of friends sits down for breakfast in a diner, nobody takes umbrage when one person chooses scrambled eggs ...

ROSA KHUTOR, Russia (Reuters) - Switzerland's Dominique Gisin and Slovenia's Tina Maze tied for women's downhill gold on We...

In the early morning of April 16, 2013, in less than half an hour, an unknown number of gunmen opened fire on an electrical substation in ...

A strange piece of belly-button lint for me: Why is it that every day I write something? Good, bad and indifferent, I write something and ...

It is hard not to think of the hard-ball textured (but oh-so-mechanically-pickable) tomatoes marketed in local stores as "tomatoes...

TOECHON, South Korea (AP) - A single picture captures the regret, shame and rage that Kim Gun-ja has harbored through most of her 89 ...

She was always a little too saccharine for my taste, but that doesn't mean I can't recognize her prowess: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - S...

Once upon a time, a "street urchin" was a term used to describe a child who spent most of his or her time in the streets, often ...

Just when you thought the drugs you were taking for a particular ailment were more or less safe and more or less appropriate based on Food a...

A worker is seen inside the Cuncas II tunnel that will link the canals being built to divert water from the Sao Francisco river for use ...

Alice Walker Everybody is somebody else's fiction. I am yours and you are mine. And yet how infrequent it seems to be that the...

In Siberia, the ponies eat snow. I learned this bit of information yesterday from a television story that was a sidebar narrative to the...

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Saturday evening that the Justice Department will now follow a landmark Supreme Court ruling on sam...

Aspirants are often needled and nagged: "Why do you languish in your depths?" Less frequently heard is a question for the ...

Like Messerschmitts and Spitfires, small birds dive and chase outside the porch windows this morning. As far as I can tell, their inten...

Old friends understand. They really do. And so today, the tendrils of guilt find small purchase in the face of an understanding I know my ...

The Tungurahua volcano erupts in Banos, Ecuador, February 1, 2014. REUTERS/Cris Toala Olivares     A graveyard is seen underwater in t...

The Winter Olympics opened in Sochi, Russia, yesterday. The enormous event is made smaller by the throngs of reporters, each striving in ...

Feeling about as original as last night's lima bean, I'll borrow someone else's bubble gum this morning and let them blow the ...