Merlin

I love Arthurian tales and the many ways these have been told, my favorite of which is the feminist Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. This TV series, brought to us by BBC, is analogous to what Smallville is to Superman. Meaning, we get […]

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Health Alert: Are You Mercury-Free?

I don’t know if anyone else had the same experience, but when my siblings and I were kids, we’d play with broken thermometers because we were fascinated with how mercury would group itself into little globs of silver. Well, last Friday, September 3, my sister […]

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