Contrasting Arboretums
In October I visited Arboretums in Dallas and Boston, after previously seeing the National Arboretum in DC. All were beautiful, but I …
Lake Tahoe
From Yosemite, Karen, Joe, Steve and I drove north to Lake Tahoe, the second deepest lake in the United States, after Crater Lake. …
Yosemite National Park
Steve and I usually spend months planning our trips, but this time, lucky us, we left the planning to his sister Karen …
Big D Stereotypes
My parents grew up in Lewisville, Texas, 24 miles north of Dallas, in the early 1900s. “Big D,” then a city of …
The Ness of Brodgar
On a narrow land bridge between two lochs in the Orkney Islands of Scotland is one of the most exciting archeological excavations …
Scotland, August 2014
Steve and I have visited Scotland several times since 1995, when I attended an International Piano Workshop in Glasgow. While he glories in …
Chautauqua 2014: the American West
Once more we were fortunate to be invited to spend a week with Jack and Peg at Chautauqua in western New York. Angela and Henry …
How the West Was Lost
“Nice place you’ve got here,” said Tink Tinker, member of the Osage Nation and Theologian, “how did you get it?” This startling …
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
On Sunday 13 July I will play “Duetto” from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Songs Without Words, Op. 38, No. 6, as an offertory during worship …
Personal Perspectives on Jewish History
It’s great to have friends who inspire me to read challenging books. Elizabeth Lodal strongly recommended Edmund De Waal’s The Hare with …