Phyllis Curott is a Wiccan high priestess or a practicing witch. She talks about what Wicca is all about and talks about casting spells for practical purposes.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Got World Cup fever? Here's Roger Kittleson on how Brazilian politics, culture and passion is wrapped up in soccer.
Pat Willard is the author of “Secrets of Saffron.” She tells Steve Paulson how you harvest saffron and why it’s more than a flavoring.
Are we ever good enough, or are we doomed to self-optimization for our entire lives?
Mick Aston is an archeologist and the co-creator of the British television show “Time Team.” Aston and a crew of archeologists and scientists descend on a site and see what they can come up with in three days.
If there’s one writer who’s identified with the Mississippi River, it’s Mark Twain. He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri — on the river’s edge — and as a young man, he worked as a steamboat pilot. And then he wrote the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the novel that turned the Mississippi into myth. But it also created one of the most enduring controversies in American literary history: how to depict race relations in America's past. In this interview, Andrew Levy says that "Huckleberry Finn" is actually anti-racist — and when it was first published, the big controversy was about Twain’s depiction of wild children.
Paula Wolfert is one of America’s most admired food writers. Her latest cook book is “The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen.”
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