We watch Stephen Dedalus grow before our eyes in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce titled his novel A Portrait, yet the book contains remarkably few literal descriptions of portraits. Instead, Joyce paints a portrait through experience. His canvas is not oil and brush but memory, suffering, beauty, and choice. Stephen Dedalus gradually discovers who he is by living through childhood, family conflict, temptation, faith, and finally artistic awakening. The portrait is...

Helmets and harnesses strapped on, we stepped into the gondola that would take us to the higher hiking trails above Chamonix, France. It...

The greatest gift of a long career is the relationships formed along the journey. So much of our time and energy is given to the pursuit...