Always fun to find half-remembered books. One bonus of this decluttering lark is that you find so many of them.…
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…
It's a late afternoon on a winter Saturday of my childhood. And that means the big Ferguson radio - the…
When a re-wired, pack-rat educator takes a deep dive in the basement there's no telling what she will find in…
In September we heard Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Oprah Winfrey at the Apollo in NYC. The topic was his…
Before all the leaves are down take a moment to look up. This is Innisfree Garden last Saturday. Big Halloween…
Yeats wrote the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" (see Game of Swans) in 1916 /17 when he was staying…
Decomposition I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and…