Miriam recalls Claudius’s lust for blood when, in The Deadliest Hate, she finds herself in the hypogeum, the region of cages and cells...

Claudius, the fourth Roman Emperor, ruled from 41 to 54 CE, during the first two books of the Miriam bat Isaac Mystery Series. In 41 CE,...

Miriam’s elderly friend Amram is flushed with fever and gasping for breath. Instead of bloodletting, Miriam recommends the opposite, that...

The captioned photograph essentially matches the painted image on an ancient Greek vase! Bloodletting, the withdrawal of blood from a...

Having withstood the ravages of storms and earthquakes for more than three hundred years, the lighthouse comforted me as I trailed behind...

I used to tell my middle school students that Isaac Newton was the Father of Modern Science. Today, of course, we view science as a...

Come with me. I’ve gone many times. We have twelve or more races in the hippodrome almost once a week, namely on every holiday, festival,...

I’m so excited to welcome Sparkle Abbey to my website and publish the interview I had with them on the upcoming release of Raiders of the...

I spoke on the morning of March 8th at Woodland Pond, New Paltz, NY for an event sponsored by LLI [Lifetime Learning Institute]. The...

I gasped when I entered the vaulted reading room, the Library’s largest and airiest hall. The beams of sunlight streaming through its...