Reading Around

My Twitter feed seems to be a longlist of people saying they have lost their mother, their brother or sister, their father, their [...]

April is National Poetry Month.  Maybe poems can help a little. Maybe because there’s sun maybe because Peter told me a good story [...]

Nature or nurture? It’s a question that has long intrigued sociologists, scientists, and parenting experts. Does the DNA we carry from [...]

One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of The Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Marquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera is one of [...]

If you have yet to discover Christin Brecher’s cozy mystery series, this time is perfect. Take a break from the headlines and dire [...]

Standing alone:Weathering;Life’s fog;Trying to swallow my day:I stand in beauty.I watch life around me,As it vibrates In love,And [...]

Misia/the Life of Misia Sert by Arthur Gold and Robert Fitzdale. Misia Sert (1872-1950) became, through three cultured, increasingly well [...]

Since the beginning of time, “art” has been copied, wrongly credited, and forged. Romans copied the work of ancient Greeks passing it [...]