Street Seens: The Aunt in Context Have you noticed the bracketing effect? There was a time when my Nieces and Nephews called me just plain “Annette.” Then they [...] May 21, 2017
Street Seens: LISTEN HERE! All Capital Letters are considered rude. But the headline for this Sunday’s walk together might sound similarly cross or dictatorial. [...] May 14, 2017
Here’s Hoping! Even as I write those words, I conclude that a gerund just isn’t up to the challenge. It’s the lovely conjunction of Easter and [...] April 15, 2017
Street Seens: Sound or Silence “I’m trying to avoid listening to the news lately.” “I ask my Mother/Husband/Wife not to turn on the TV in the morning.” Have you [...] April 9, 2017
Street Seens: Uncle Albert Lives And even if his name is Mr. Turvy, (who knew there were so many magical Uncles in the six sequels P.L. Travers wrote from 1934 to 1989!) I [...] April 2, 2017
Street Seens: Hyphens Should Unite not Divide One week ago, on a Saint Patrick’s Day spent here in the Manhattan of my adulthood, the urban village in New York City where we regularly [...] March 26, 2017
Street Seens: St. Francis of Assisi and Chicago Today’s conversation is about how a 20th Century Dominican Priest and world respected sculptor, went into a studio and created a Jubilant [...] February 26, 2017
Street Seens: A Gift for Listening Jurisprudence and crime detection suffered a great loss when the young Theodore Tyberg chose to follow his roots to Belgium and the study [...] February 5, 2017