The research I did in writing Swimming in the Moon on treatment of mental illness in the early 20th C was scary enough. Here are reasons a person (especially a woman, foreigner or poor person) could get committed in the…

Who would have imagined such a thing/beast? One more evidence of the irresistible force of human creativity. Or octo-obsession. This masterpiece was posted by my friend Antigone Pantanizopoulos, a master baker who might have made it but didn’t. There’s an…