I love Brian Lamb. How can you not? He's like that high school coach who ends up teaching History because the regular teacher is on mat...

Opening to an essay called "My Books," I find the following: "Sitting, last winter, among my books, and walled round with all...

I intended to greet the New Year here last night, first thing after our private celebrations, but I didn't get to this until tonight.  A...

A favorite I reread every year at this time, for obvious reasons, is Charles Lamb's classic essay "New Year's Eve." I...