Recalling the 1950s
Last Tuesday I participated in a Zoom conference that Lilli had organized for Violet’s Girl Scout troop in Cambridge MA. Each scout …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson’s marvelous biography of the genius who died 500 years ago, is like a seven-course dinner that must …
Kensington & Barbican
Once the private gardens of a Palace, Kensington Gardens is now open to all. One of London’s eight Royal Parks, it covers 265 acres. …
Tower of London
The message on the tee shirt of the guy from Barcelona, who sat across from me on the train from London Gatwick …
Getting Our Steps
Is it important to walk 10,000 steps each day to stay fit? The BBC reports that three brisk 10-minute walks per day …