Portents of Death in Celtic Lore
I’m not sure the exact moment I became aware of my Irish lineage—both my maternal and paternal grandmothers were Irish—but somewhere between childhood and adolescence I began to develop a…
Five Paintings of Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
The gruesome image of a young woman gazing at the severed head of the man she has condemned to death on a whim has sparked the imaginations of many artists…