When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.