My Mother
For Mother’s Day 2020, I would like to share memories of my mother, Patti Jeanette Raiza Kirkpatrick Cooper, who died January 20, …
A Heavenly Reunion
Twenty years ago, eight friends, whom I had first met in elementary school in Phillips TX, gathered at my house in Arlington …
Musical Road Trip
Do you like to take road trips? I do, especially in the spring. In the last eight years, road trips have taken …
Virtual Moonrise Party
The Moon is giving us a free show this week, shining its pure light on our troubled world. In South Florida look …
Hunkering Down
What to call these strange days–hibernation? quarantine? sequestration? Hunkering Down is my choice. For the past two weeks Steve and I have emerged …
Kennedy Space Center
Look up! proclaimed the title of the visitor guide for the NASA complex on Cape Canaveral, where powerful rockets are launched. On …
Music, music, music!
Long-time friends sometimes ask me, rather doubtfully, what musical opportunities I’ve found in the South Florida golf community where we live. Here …
Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings have long fascinated me. In DC, I studied them at the Phillips Collection; in Santa Fe, at the Georgia O’Keeffe …
Burns Night 2020
Five years ago, Steve and I attended a fabulous, fancy celebration of Robert Burns’ 256th birthday in Beaufort SC. This year, on …
Museums with Marjo
The Frost Museum of Science and the Perez Art Museum share a parking garage and wonderful views of Miami harbor. On Marjo’s …