EDITING and PHOTOGRAPHY
LITUANIS: The Lithuanian Quarterly
- Rūpentojėlis: Evocation of Indigenous Lithuanian Soulfulness, Eglutė Trinkauskaitė, vol 65:2 (2019): editing thanks in acknowledgments; frontispiece photograph; three photographs illustrating text
ART, ART HISTORY and CRITICISM
Iowa Architect
- A Reinterpretation: Houses from the Eighties, vol 36, no 2, March/April 1988
Sculpture Review Magazine
- Ralph Brown and Knut Steen: Two Sources of Inspiration, vol LXVII, no. 3, fall 2018
- Figures from the Earth: Ceramic Sculpture, vol LIX, no 3, fall 2010
- Capital Sculpture: L’Enfant’s Design for Washington D.C., vol LIX, no 1, spring 2010
- Preserving Our Heroes, The Monuments of Gettsyburg National Military Park, vol LVIII, no 2, summer 2009
- Music and Sculpture: A Survey, vol LVII, no 4, winter 2008
- The Visible Nude: Artists and Foundries Speak about Public Sculpture, vol LVII, no 2, summer 2008
- Archetype and Allegory: Marino Marini’s Horses and Riders, vol LV, no 2, summer 2006
- Sculpture through the Lens, vol LIV, no 4, winter 2005
- An Abundance of Life: The Morton Swinsky Collection, vol LIV, no 1, spring 2005
- Deborah Butterfield’s Horses: Allegories of the Spirit, vol LIII, no 3, fall 2004
- Sculpture as the Union of Art and Craft, vol LIII, no 1, spring 2004
- Polychromy: Color in Modern Figural Sculpture, vol LII, no 3, fall 2003
- Taking Chisel and Hammer to Stone: some thoughts on marble sculpture since 1950, vol LI, no 1, spring 2002
- Distance, Detail and the Apprehension of Reality: The Sculpture of Alberto Giacometti, vol L, no 3, fall 2001
National Gallery of Art publications
- Art Works from the West Building: A Self-Guided Tour for Children and their Families, 1994
- Shapes and Patterns: East Building, National Gallery of Art, A Self-Guided Tour for Children and their Families, 1992
- Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. A self-guided tour for children ages 6-12 and their parents, 1992
- The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from the Corning Museum: A self-guided tour for children ages 6-10 and their parents, 1990
GENERAL INTEREST
“The Wavles of Berkshire, Tioga County, New York,” Berkshire: The Town and People We Remember, Berkshire, New York: RH Books, 2014
The Origins of Everything: Digging Into the Beginnings of Things, Armchair Reader series, Chicago: Publications International Ltd., 2009. Essays: “An Eggscellent Easter Tradition,” “Portrait of Oils,” “The Diabolical Fork,” “Too Big to Be True,” “Pariahs: A People Apart,” “A ‘Fitting’ Solution: The Origin of Jugsaw Puzzles,” “In Defense of Animal Rights,” “With This Ring, I Thee Wed”
Daily Dose of Knowledge, Chicago: Publications International Ltd., 2008. Essays: Agrippina; Bernini and Borromini; the pigeon Cher Ami; Christopher Wren; Cubism; Dada; Honoré Daumier; the Fibonacci Series; Francisco Goya; intaglio prints; Jackson Pollock; Lewis Hine; Édouard Manet’s Olympia; Matthew Brady; Michelangelo; Claude Monet’s Waterlilies; Pablo Picasso’s Guernica; Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell; The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; T-O maps; the Unicorn Tapestries; Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin at Arles; Diego Velazquez’s Maid’s of Honor
“The Last One,” OSHER at JHU Journal,vol 18, no 2, fall/winter 2008
“Chasing Pop’s Ambulance,” Bostonia, The Alumni Quarterly of Boston University, no 1, spring 2006
“A Letter to my Son,” September Eleven: Maryland Voices, Baltimore: Baltimore Writers Alliance, 2002
“Crusades,” September Eleven: Maryland Voices, Baltimore: Baltimore Writers Alliance, 2002
The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Going West–in lovely Mass., Sunday Travel Section, October 2, 2005
- Gîte: Home away from home, Sunday Travel Section, January 30, 2005
- Love, Venice and pigeons, too, Sunday Travel Section, March 7, 2004
- With childhood book as a guide, Ireland trip becomes a reality, Sunday Travel Section, July 6, 2003
- French connections span generations, Sunday Travel Section, July 14, 2002
The Baltimore Sun and The Aegis
- “The Baltimore region’s lack of transit is sending me to Boston,” Opinion Section, print and online editions, March 29, 2024
- “Be forewarned: We’re all in season when it comes to online ‘phishing’ scams.” Opinion Section, print and online editions, October 4, 2021
- “Susquehanna State Park, Swan Harbor Farm in Harford in desperate need of some upkeep,” The Aegis, Opinion Page, print and online editions, June 8, 2021
- “A commitment from and to our museums,” Opinion Page, January 25, 2018; Opinion Section, online edition, January 23, 2018
- “The vice and virtue of extremism,” Opinion Page, May 4, 2016; Opinion Section, online edition, May 3, 2016
- “The suburbs have a role in preventing another Freddie Gray,” Opinion Section, online edition, May 13, 2015
- “Too many deer, alas, is not so dear,” Opinion Page, September 10, 2014
- “Food for Thought: An environment-conscious meat eater reflects on the meaning of her dining choices,” Opinion Page, August 14, 2011
- “Attack of the satellite radio stations,” Opinion Page, July 15, 2010
- “Busy Madrid on parade,” Sunday Travel, March 26, 2000
- “Isolation is the Problem, Not the Fix, for Education,” Opinion Page, March 2, 1993
Times-Union, Capital Region, New York
- “Lighthouse’s details amaze,” Your Best Shot, print edition, September 1, 2023
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
New York Times
- Needed: Federal Gun Law, June 14, 2021
- Elusive Books, “The New York Times Book Review,” August 25, 2013
- Sunday Dialogue: A New School Schedule?, June 5, 2013
- And the Future of the Textbook Is …, August 9, 2009
The Baltimore Sun
- The sickness of the American soul, May 26, 2022
- Memory protects us from past’s horrors, October 7, 2006
- Wider highways will not resolve congestion woes, April 29, 2003
The Aegis, Harford County, Maryland
- Sheriff ‘Misguided’ about Dangers in Harford, January 16, 2019
- Don’t Push the Envelope: Harford not in need of more development, March 1, 2012
- A Disturbing Amount of Trash, October 11, 2011
- So you think Superintendent Ray Keech’s budget for the Harford County Schools is ”unrealistic?’‘, February 8, 1991
Philadelphia Inquirer
- Credibility and biases, November 15, 1999
Vanity Fair magazine
- On “The Battle for Picasso” by Milton Esterow (strife among the heirs), Summer 2016
- On the architect Richard Meier, June 1997
JUVENILE NON-FICTION
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Fountas-Pinnell level T, grade 6), 2009
Macmillan/Mc-Graw Hill Leveled Readers
- Bicycle Metals (grade 2), 2008
Scott Foresman Reading Street Leveled Readers
- The Inspiration of Art (5.3.2 advanced), 2007
- The Chicago American Giants (5.1.4 below level), 2007
- The Rosetta Stone and the Secret of Hieroglyphics (4.4.4 below level), 2007
Scott Foresman Social Studies Leveled Readers
- Looking at Prehistory (6.1 A below level), 2006
- Discovering the Old Stone Age (6.1 B on level), 2006
- What Archeology Tells Us About Prehistory (6.1 C advanced), 2006
- His Name Was Amerigo (5.2 A below level), 2006
- Vespucci Sails for America (5.2 B on level), 2006
- Exploring with Amerigo Vespucci (5.2 C advanced), 2006
- St. Augustine, Our First City (Florida 4.2 B on level), 2006
- St. Augustine and Florida’s Spanish Heritage (Florida 4.2 C advanced), 2006
“Through the Eyes of an American ‘Ambulancier’,” Learning Through History, vol 3, issue 6, 2005 (“The Great War”)
EDUCATION AND READING INSTRUCTION
Writing the Critical Analysis 1: Description (2015). Youtube video channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrn7dfYFPp3rd0uyT1vToQ
Writing the Critical Analysis 2: Analysis (2015). Youtube video channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrn7dfYFPp3rd0uyT1vToQ
Writing the Critical Analysis 3: Interpretation (2015). Youtube video channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrn7dfYFPp3rd0uyT1vToQ
Writing the Critical Analysis 4: Putting It All Together (2015). Youtube video channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrn7dfYFPp3rd0uyT1vToQ
REVIEWS
“Image to Word: Art and Creative Writing by Kathleen Walsh Piper” (review), The WAC Journal (Writing Across the Curriculum), vol 15, 2004
“A Wheel of Memory,” (review of The Hereford Mappamundi, CD-ROM #0-472-00274-0, by Naomi Reed Kline), Renaissance, vol 8, #1, Issue #29, 2002.
“Finally, a Book That Is Really About Looking at Art!,” (review of Art Fraud Detective by Anna Nilsen), CUT & PASTE, Elementary & Secondary Edition, a publication of The MASTER Teacher®, vol 3, no 7, September 2002
“Feeling Good for Good Reason,” CUT & PASTE , Elementary & Secondary Edition, a publication of The MASTER Teacher®, vol 3, no 7, September 2002