It's been a bit quiet on the R and R front this Fall but I've not been entirely idle. I…
So much gloom, doom, and disaster that it's important to find counterbalances. Here are a few recent bright spots. Glasgow…
Poems by Charles Simic (1938-2023) January Children’s fingerprints On a frozen window Of a small schoolhouse. An empire, I read…
Cats and Dogs Dogs have owners; cats have staff. That's now a familiar saying but just as accurate nonetheless And…
Optimized for full cable reception, BlueTooth and wi-fi. The Hat on the Cat - Inspired by all the Amazing Hats…
Shadorma - that wonderful bogus poetic form that is such fun to write - is perfect for the paean to…
Apparently it's International Cat Day (where do all these days come from?) So - as I live with an international…
A favorite place for a walk is the Hudson Valley Rail Trail. There's at least one stretch north of Hopewell…
There's a cat sanctuary in the grounds of the Pyramid in Rome. This rather incongruous Egyptian style pyramid was built in…
Sleeping is one of the things cats do best. Which is lucky because it limits the number of minutes and…
Caravaggio is one of the bad boys in the history of art with a biography so outlandish it reads like…
As Donald Trump spirals deeper into madness and depravity the toll on the collective psyche just grows. Fortunately help is…
The flying cats of Borneo - apocryphal? Hyperbole? Fantasy? Jungle legend? Imaginary animals? In response to a request from a…