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…
I've been thinking about how we need to stop using the word "gender" to refer to people and why we…
Raw, cold, and damp but it's still good to get out. Thanks to the ongoing lurgy there are no social…
The sun shining ... just there in the sky like a force-ripe orange That striking image is from Samuel Selvon's…
I am always a bit astonished when I see tRump signs at people's houses. And I ask myself: "Who are…
Eighty years ago today - on January 26th, 1939 - the poet W.H.Auden - accompanied by his friend and sometime…
A few November snowflakes and the hits on my all-time most-read post start climbing the "Most Read This Week" list.…
The temperature's rising. Time to think about eating outside and settling in at a sidewalk cafe to watch the world…
Subway Rush Hour by Langston Hughes Mingled breath and smell so close mingled black and white so near no room…
Imagine being so consumed with racial hatred that you travel all the way from Maryland specifically on a mission to…
There's a great exhibit on at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC: Max Beckmann in New York It highlights…
First the music and the record stores closed. And then the books - Posman's on Broadway, Ivy's and too many…