Art, Film, Photography

Gobbledegook, Gibberish, and Deep Joy

Are you all sitty comftybold two-square on your botty? Then I'll begin. If you're a Brit of a certain vintage…

2 years ago

A Beach, a Dip, and some Wiggles

Last week saw a short foray into Connecticut. This included a day at Hammonasset Beach State Park, a dip in…

2 years ago

To Look at Simple Things

                                    "I like…

3 years ago

Four Little Girls

Carole Robertson (14), Carol Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), and Cynthia Wesley (14) died on September 15, 1963,…

3 years ago

What Shall I Love if Not the Enigma?

Digging into the women writers of WW2 led me to the short stories of Anna Kavan whose life and work…

4 years ago

Women Artists of WW1: Anna Coleman Ladd

In his series of WW1 epitaphs, Rudyard Kipling comments on the all too common fate of a new soldier at…

4 years ago

Anna and Gertrude

“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…

4 years ago

All Our Yesterdays with the #1936Club

There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…

4 years ago

Wisdom of the Ages

Looks like having government officials who are Ignorant and Stupid is nothing new. Chinese poet Su Tung-Po nailed it centuries…

4 years ago

Show’s over folks. It’s November

November Show's over, folks. And didn't October do A bang-up job? Crisp breezes, full-throated cries Of migrating geese, low-floating coral…

4 years ago