Ocean

What’s a day like here? Yes, I walk, there are misty rains and plates piled high with shellfish. The fields are covered with artichoke heads...

The posts have been a tad shorter, the photos – less numerous. Why ? Because I did not finish all my work for the semester before leaving an...

Having myself lived in two countries where the political leadership has been, at numerous points, tremendously unpopular among those within ...

It is late Sunday afternoon. Monsieur has yet to vote, but he made for me the most “perfect” (his words and he is correct) crepe, with acaci...

Internet or no Internet? It's always a cliff-hanger here and today I tumbled into non-connectedness again. Once again kind strangers ste...

My occasional traveling companion, Ed, has sometimes expressed a desire to bike across France. Maybe “desire” is a little strong. Maybe it’s...

I look out my loft window Wednesday evening and I watch a plane come in for a (still distant) landing. People coming in, people leaving. I’m...

You know how utterly idiotic it was to have Prominent Government Officials appear on American Idol last night (I need TV to help me write le...

You know you need help when, for the third day in a row, you are posting pics of random flowers and this time, you can’t even move beyond th...

…even think you’ll get more than a hermit’s line here today. Despite the fantastic spring skies and, I’m sure, proliferating spring flora, I...

Yes, really, peach blossoms, in Madison. But who can even pay attention? Work. Work. Get it done. Finish it up. Work, damn it! And this Thur...

Outside Old Orchard mall; what's in a name... Perhaps this is a stretch. But the day was so pretty, that there were almost as many peopl...

Such good food, here, south of where I live. Borders are funny lines drawn (sometimes, but not always, with hostility) by neighboring entiti...

spring realities spring creations (sadly, not mine)

Ten minutes clicking “put in shopping cart” and giving credit card information for the acquisition of the smallest notebook around (Sony). F...

I had dinner with a friend tonight. We went to this place on State Street: Good view, no? Is there a name for the phenomenon where two trian...

She stands on the balcony, sipping wine. He says things to her. She answers, with enthusiasm. So why does he walk away? (She takes a sip, lo...