Ocean

A reader was brilliantly quick at naming the song from yesterday’s post. This one (see post title) may be trickier (go ahead, guess). But it...

If in academia fame comes from a history of prolific writing and publishing, in the world of food it must come from having products named af...

The last Concert on the Square, a tough day, two wonderful young women who keep me going… (one of them pictured here, helping me along). ...

sometimes help comes from those who are younger than you 

Might it improve still? Please? Memorable moments from the a.m.: * Getting up in the morning without much sleep under the belt. It was on...

Sure enough, today's headline is “On ferry with Kerry.” As the candidates make their campaign rounds I can hear the cutesiness pick up....

Day two of computer issues: three far, far away Dell technicians later and one close-by geek and I am still without a diagnosis and without ...

This afternoon I met an attorney friend for a cup of coffee downtown on the Square. In the time I spent there, I saw many many familiar face...

YES! Next week I’m setting out for Europe. I typically do not preannounce on the blog activities that are about to happen, but this time, my...

my last look at the canals, two years ago 

I would imagine that it is a given that Poland and France would be at odds about the value of conducting politics in the American Way. That...

I read a short little piece in the New Yorker today ( here ) about New Year’s Resolutions, seven months later. The thing is, to the naked...

A computer problem has swallowed me. I no longer exist. This morning I have been but a slave to Dell’s distant instructions, torn between wh...

Q: Why are the reeds bending fiercely in the photo below? Why is the water so rippled? A: (Yes there is such a thing as a stupid Q.) It was...

the winds against the water lilly... can she survive their fierce strength? 

Q: Must have been wonderful to go sailing, therefore? A: Yes. Sailing would have been two thumbs up! Paddle boating? Well, that proved to b...

are we really standing still? worse, going backwards?? 

Today is the birthday of the following people: Herman Melville (he wrote: “friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said ...

Yet another Saturday morning foraging for L’Etoile… Is it tedious to get up at dawn every week to go to the Market? No. (I get to see t...

a dramatic awakening