KATYA REIMANN ◦ WRITER & ARTIST

Sometimes it's about when you read some piece of writing that it becomes totemic. Sometimes it's just the writing. "The past," he...

No doubt I have made errors in transliteration, but here is a lovely piece by the Italian poet Petronilla Paolini Massimi (1663-1728), as...

I have found myself sharing this piece numerous times over the years. As I went to hunt it up last night, I realized I should capture it...

"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." --MAYA...

One is often loneliest in the presence of others because their indifference throws the futility of one’s efforts at self-sustenance...

If you are told that such a one speaks ill of you, make no excuses against what was said, but answer, "He was ignorant of my other...