Amazing how hard it sometimes can be to find things on the intertubes. There was a poem I remembered from…
Novelists and film makers often struggle to find the right period details to anchor their work in a particular era.…
Apparently it's International Cat Day (where do all these days come from?) So - as I live with an international…
Two quite different wartime farewells at Charing Cross Station: The first is from Vera Brittain on the eve of 1915:…
The sandwich was no comfort, it was a pale limp thing a long way from the déjeuner sur l'herbe of her…
As America wakes up this Sunday morning it is confronted with the horror of two major acts of domestic terrorism.…
It's hard to cut through the clutter and fog of an overcrowded political field. But Elizabeth Warren did it this…
We are well into the election season although the actual vote is well over a year away. This time in…
Buy local. If you live in a city, town or village you probably appreciate the local amenities. These include the…
Soodle - it means means to walk in a slow or leisurely manner; to stroll, saunter. With so many alternatives…
Two Sundays, two documentaries and two very satisfactory movie experiences. The first was Maiden at The Moviehouse in Millerton, NY.…
Some left over words from another post and borrowed words not exactly put to music. Boundaries blur. The streetlamp a…
In 1975 the poet Allen Ginsberg was in hospital. At a later poetry reading he explained the causes in an…
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights…