Palm Beach: Treasures and Trash
Palm Beach is famous as the home of railroad builder Henry Flagler, architect Addison Mizner, The Breakers resort, and Worth Avenue shops. Just last week I …
David Runs in Miami
On Sunday 27 January, our son David ran a Half-Marathon in Miami in less than 2 hours. We met him near the …
Art in Palm Beach
On Friday 25 January, I visited a major art show at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. ArtPalmBeach had over seventy international galleries presenting …
Two Poets I LIke
Richard Blanco, though he was named for Richard Nixon by his Castro-hating father, was the perfect poet to grace the Inaugural festivities …
Mozart at Meyerson Hall
On January 17 my brother Joel and his wife Elisabeth treated me to an all-Mozart concert by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, my …
Pete the Cat
My grandson Thomas LOVES a book named Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes. Now that I’ve read it umpteen times, I’m …
Time with my Grandsons
“What’s it like having your mother-in-law with you?” Sean’s associate asked him, knowing that extra help had been called in response to …
Weather of the Future
For January 2013 one of my book groups is reading The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from …
Perot Museum, Dallas
North Texas was apparently starved for a science museum. Since opening December 1, 2012, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas …