Our friend Carol said we just had to read David Sedaris in the September 9, 2024, New Yorker - “The…
The 2024 harvest moon is September 17th. First a poem courtesy of the Daily Poem at The Paris Review -…
Half a century ago I received an anonymous telephone call from a woman who said she had found my name…
As always, one thing leads to another. This time it's the post from Gert Loveday's Fun With Books that highlights…
OK - so this image is misleading. My photo app tells me this is from last year when - on…
One thing leads to another. How do you get from the Daily Poem in the Paris Review to a re-read…
It has been nearly four months since the publication of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and…
A legend makes a good story. To win a ten-dollar bet, Hemingway wrote a six-word story. “For sale: baby shoes.…
I received a book in the mail this week. Nothing unusual about that even though I do try to buy…
Dilys was the first, circa 1980. Unwanted or abandoned, I can't remember how she came our way but she left…
I put this image together in honor of the Holy Month that's now upon us. Given the proliferation of days,…
Before decamping to Brooklyn for the month I saw this on a utility box on Riverside Drive. Someone had gone…
Midge Hazelbrow, the indomitable co-head of Wayward St. Etheldreda's Academy, took herself for a brisk constitutional down Riverside Drive to…
Before the eruption, it was a typical senior leadership meeting at Wayward. Head of School, Tim Endibel, was talking. On…
When I taught fourth and fifth grade at a school that didn't assign grades, the topic occasionally came up among…