Without steel needles, sewing was a difficult craft in the first-century CE. The women had a few simple garments with little shape. The...

I’ll be in Pequannock on Sunday, June 4 from 11:00—5:00 PM at the Street Festival on the corner of Jackson and Turnpike, Pompton Plains...

If you read this blog regularly—and I hope you do—my guess is you read novels regularly too. So, I thought you might enjoy knowing how...

Every once in a while, I prepare a column on some aspect of novel writing for Book Daily. I was looking over some already published,...

Perhaps to you the word “alchemy” conjures up images of sinister laboratories, black-robed sorcerers, or even quackery. Still, for...

The Romans were especially clever at establishing severe methods of execution. Crucifixion was a long-drawn out penalty, not exactly...

In THE DEADLIEST LIE, Miriam explains why her palms dampen whenever she passes the grove of marble columns that fronts the Great...

Collecting taxes has always been a serious business. Note the soldier standing behind the tax collector. Ostensibly, he is there to...

Since earliest times, opium has been used to relieve pain, stop diarrhea, and induce sleep. In The Deadliest Lie, Miriam takes some to...

If you’ve read my blogs on mining and beauty (February 28, March 7, and March 14, 2017), you’re entitled to know more about Pliny the...