Continue Reading On the Road in California Caution: reading any of the books on this list might really make you want to leave the safety of your home and…
Continue Reading A week in Tuscany I took the train from Venice to meet up with friends who had rented a house in the countryside, some 3 miles…
Continue Reading A Week in Venice Italy is on my mind, center of a still unfolding European tragedy, although it looks like they are finally seeing a flattened…
Continue Reading Vicarious Travel Even people who are not particularly fond of travel are all of sudden lusting to go places. Such is the psychological reactance…
Continue Reading The world keeps ending, and the world goes on. A timely poem to end the week. The poet is Franny Choi, author of the poetry collections Soft Science (Alice James, 2019) and Floating,…
Continue Reading Horatio Alger (Lore,) Drop Dead! Self-reliance is a trait that many nations cherish, but none more so than the United States. The worship of self-reliance, the distrust…
Continue Reading Distracting, if Useless Beauty For fear that you’ll all desert me if I don’t loosen up, here is a mid-week respite before I return to issues…
Continue Reading Necropolitics Honestly, I am not trying to add to all of our fears and sadness. I do think, however, that we need to…
Continue Reading Happily ever after? Several large wedding ceremonies were held over the last weeks in New York City in the Orthodox Jewish Community, despite the city’s…
Continue Reading Hush, Frida! I could not believe my eyes. Here I was on the first longer outing in weeks, visiting one of my regular haunts…
