Continue Reading WHAT A DAY My morning visitors, just beyond the kitchen door, were two parrots. I was lured outside because I heard their incredibly loud squawking…
Continue Reading Rain check Checking out SoCal fashion in the rain and cold – crazy weather for mid-April, and clever outfits to meet the challenge, colorful…
Continue Reading (Re)Birth There have been rich moments during my stay at the Californian Zorthian Ranch, in the course of daily wanderings, or, for that…
Continue Reading Art On the Road: Imagined Fronts – The Great War and Global Media at LACMA “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” – Quote attributed to Leon Trotsky but actually…
Continue Reading Little Lizards ““Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye – little makes…
Continue Reading Desert Beauty Exploring Anza-Borrego Desert State Park “Certain desert areas have a distinctive and subtle charm, in part dependent on spaciousness, solitude, and escape from the evidence of human…
Continue Reading Tales of a far away land. Frankly, I’m torn between my desire to report on a magical place, and my longing for just sitting here and let it…
Continue Reading Coming and Going You have to be on the lookout – otherwise you miss all the action! Going: yours truly, driving to L.A. for the next…
Continue Reading What to do with the past? Stitching Stories at Art at the Cave Gallery in Vancouver, WA. “If nostalgia as a political motivation is most frequently associated with Fascism, there is no reason why a nostalgia conscious of itself,…
Continue Reading Diversion Today is International Women’s Day. I should probably be writing something about the rights women fought for, gained, have threatened and…
