Mar-a-Lago, Real and Imagined
On January 29, 2014, long before any of us had any idea that Donald Trump would be elected President, my Quail Ridge …
Persistent Women
My initial attraction to Jane Kirkpatrick’s novel, Something Worth Doing, was the author’s name; my middle name is Kirkpatrick. Examining the book …
Nina & Alicia
2020! This crazy year has disrupted my lifelong fascination with music by European men of the 18th & 19th centuries and schooled …
Honey & Juba Dance
Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) composed two pieces, Honey and Juba Dance, that intrigue me. Both are from a suite, “In the Bottoms,” published in Music …