Continue Reading Of Presepi and Snark and Pique I got scooped by the New York Times. Well, I had started to write about a tempest in a manger on Thursday…
Continue Reading Of Trains and Excuses With Christmas upon us, I tried to find some cheerful sights that bring us into a mood appropriate for the season and/or…
Continue Reading Paris-Match (2) Photographer Gisèle Freund (1908 – 2000) was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin, growing up around art (her father was…
Continue Reading Paris-Match (1) So it goes. You learn some interesting things from a book you received for Hanukkah, and then you get caught up in…
Continue Reading Mix and Match, Upside down. Since cheer is hard to come by these days, I grabbed this story by the horns and ran with it – I…
Continue Reading Matched Pair Two articles caught my attention last week, reporting on people who at first glance could not be more different. The first appeared…
Continue Reading Mismatch “Worth watching for the cast (period drama heaven), and the bonnets and cloaks and corsets and all the rest, but it ultimately…
Continue Reading I dwell in possibility Nothing you haven’t seen before, if you have followed this blog for a while. The same vistas, the same trees, the same…
Continue Reading Re-Flecting Hanukkah begins tonight, a minor Jewish Holiday morphed into a major one in cultures competing with the magnetism of Christmas for children’s…
Continue Reading Re-Imagining When I think back to my time in Venice during the Biennale in 2015, snugly lodged in the attic of some decrepit…
