Ocean

Truth is, I don’t know. There was no defining moment, not at the level of awareness nor at the level of government bureaucracy. Some two doz...

Two new stories for you on the Ask For an Ocean View website: one on how to pick a restaurant in Paris without really trying and another on...

A vegetable of tears, the name of a satirical paper, a food of central Europe. And as a food – unforgiving. Bad vibes, bad breath, sad days,...

…covers all. Doesn’t take much. A light flurry, like a sedative. What are the choice words? Under a blanket of snow, a dusting of snow… Forg...

Potatoes, and flour. Sage – lots of sage and olive oil. Porcini mushrooms, shallots, parmiggiano. Small tomatoes, fresh kernels of corn, aru...

When you have been inundated with the blues and delightful tones of virtual travel (especially in and around the Mediterranean), you begin t...

There were the much needed pats on the head: there, there, you know most website launches are delayed for technical reasons. And the encoura...

Well, it can happen. One arm may work, the other may not. But the thing is, it's only a blog. It's only a website. It's not all ...

I think it came to us too late. Five years maybe, not more, but too late nonetheless. For those of us whose work doesn't rest on absolut...

Ideas, activities, thoughts, more concrete plans and perspecitives -- discarded because I am so focused on something else. along Lake Mendot...

Leave one place, find another. Wake up, looking out on the alley and the house next door. It’s warm, inside and out. I crack the window. Mmm...

If someone tells you you’re swell, terrific, the best, how do you respond next time you work on a project with that person? Do you try even ...

I wake up early, stumble to my computer and check for messages. Bingo! One from my partner in crime, the graphic designer who has been helpi...

I had an excess of blog-related writing today. Tons and gobs. A whole day’s worth. The webpage is getting a big push into the world. A few m...

Today marks a three year anniversary for the Other Side of the Ocean . Another year of daily posts, though some have come terribly close to...

And so midnight came and champagne (tinted a shade of rose) filled glasses and chunks of lobster sat precariously on fat scallops. lobster o...

And travel far. Is there a better wish? I didn’t travel too far for New Year’s Eve, but I am away from home. In Chicago for the week. For th...

Someone told me recently that they do not believe in the institution of marriage. Yawn . I’ve heard this before: Marriage is a convention th...

Sometimes, the hardest thing for me is to write lightly here, on Ocean . Events unfold. Floods, wars, executions; endless drama cumulatively...

So brief was my stay here! So brief, that I could pick up the return boarding pass as I was checking in to fly out. So brief, that after din...