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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dornoch Cathedral
As the church bells ring on Sunday mornings, Allene, Jim, Steve, and I walk through an ancient graveyard to worship at Dornoch …
Bach Preludes
In seventh grade, I started lessons with Hurshelene Journey-McCarty at Frank Phillips Junior College in Borger, Texas. One of my first assignments …