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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 …

Riveting River

Shelby drew my name in the family gift exchange and gave me a charming portrait of myself by grandson Thomas (friends on …

Frederick Douglass

The December 1 New York Times spotlighted an exhibit on Frederick Douglass at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art. Five days …

Austin Public Library

Austin has a new library that goes far beyond a mere collection of books. A collection of gathering places and opportunities–indoors and …

Perspectives on Africa

What follows is no attempt at scholarship, but an effort to record my impressions of this vast continent. There is so much …

Tanzania Safari

Last spring my friend Kate Richards, of Charlotte, invited me to join her and her friend Martha Campbell on a tour of …

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