Continue Reading Size Sizzlers Remember all those times you were told size doesn’t matter? They lied. No lies about size, though, when it comes to gorillas beating…
Continue Reading Magicicada Mysteries If creepy-crawlies give you the creeps you might consider skipping today’s blog. Not for the faint of heart. But, oh, so fascinating…
Continue Reading Cherry Blossom Contemplations I should have gone there earlier. When I meandered along the Esplanade last week the peak of the cherry blossoms was clearly…
Continue Reading Dreams (3) I thought we’d exit the week with a different variety of dreams: the daylight version, not nocturnal ones. Dreams Langston Hughes – 1902-1967 Hold fast to…
Continue Reading Dreams (2) “Years ago, a poet friend showed me a photo of her cat, taken on the spur of the moment, with a cigarette…
Continue Reading Dreams (1) Admittedly it’s not a random sample, but many of those who I talk to or correspond with these days relate how much…
Continue Reading Easter Rebus I did not see the Easter bunny, maybe the chased it away. But walking at a ‘s pace on Tuesday, my…
Continue Reading Virtual Louvre When I learned that the Louvre now has an internet platform on which you can peruse 480.000 or so objects of art,…
Continue Reading Masking Up Something curious and creative today: a German artist’s work, created long before Covid-19 entered our lives, that is focussed on masks. I…
Continue Reading Plagues Be Gone As we enter Passover I am fondly remembering the glee with which the kids recited the 10 plagues at the annual Seder…
