Today's column: Timing!

Today's column: The private investigator

Today's column: When a picture tells a story

Here's the photo, and here's the painting.

Today's column: Ancient secrets revealed!

In today's column I promised some links: YellowBridge.com has an excellent dictionary feature with etymology. Zhongwen.com is a long-time favorite but it does not work on my Android tablet. Speaking of tablets, Google Translate can interpret hand-written Chinese characters without requiring any special software.