Gloomy drizzly start for today so time to remember some recent sunshine and shadows. Covid-19 testing tents are all up…
There's a lovely exhibit currently on show at the Morgan Library. It's the work of artist-illustrator Ashley Bryan (see below…
Are you all sitty comftybold two-square on your botty? Then I'll begin. If you're a Brit of a certain vintage…
Last week saw a short foray into Connecticut. This included a day at Hammonasset Beach State Park, a dip in…
Carole Robertson (14), Carol Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), and Cynthia Wesley (14) died on September 15, 1963,…
Digging into the women writers of WW2 led me to the short stories of Anna Kavan whose life and work…
In his series of WW1 epitaphs, Rudyard Kipling comments on the all too common fate of a new soldier at…
“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…
There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…