It's been a bit quiet on the R and R front this Fall but I've not been entirely idle. I…
If you are in New York City and looking for a outing here's a suggestion: Wave Hill Garden in the…
Researching Marienbad and the Savoy led me to Erika Mann and all the gossip, scandal, politics, and drama of her…
The third destination of our Met Museum art extravaganza was Beyond the Light - Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish…
A wander crosstown to the Met with a destination. Or rather three. The first - Water Memories - explores water’s significance…
Carole Robertson (14), Carol Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), and Cynthia Wesley (14) died on September 15, 1963,…
First Grade by Ron Kortgee Until then, every forest had wolves in it, we thought it would be fun to…
“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…
There, there, said the parent to the anguished child whose ice cream fell to the gutter. There! There! said the…
From George Orwell at the Café Royal : The coming of the Hitler regime in 1933 had a chilling effect…
These days find me busy clearing and chucking, sorting and sifting, storing and saving. Three truck loads of stuff cleared…
A recent visit to Montreal found us at the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal Fortified with coffee and breakfast…
I love this poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It's a commentary on the fact that - even in the darkest…
Friends in the UK who usually come to visit in August were prevented by an illness this year. Big disappointment,…