Saturday, August 31, 2019
Moving again, old portraits
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I was talking with a friend on his land line in California the other day, about the problem of whether to load up and take along di...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Itinerants
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From time to time, a posting here or there has referenced the college town down the road, to acknowledge some passing influence of i...
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Les jeux sont fait à Biarritz
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Americans, especially, always perk up when their President ventures into a gathering he's not competent to attend, beca...
Saturday, August 24, 2019
"We as a nation simply cannot" [fill in the blank]
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We were enchanted, weren't we, to see that wonderful scaffold for demagogic perfidy deployed in an online column by a CNN "Bus...
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Danish borders we have known
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Who knew that the present era, such as it is, might come to be defined by that Kierkegaardrail against expansive idiocy, th...
Monday, August 19, 2019
Rued, the boat
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You think Britain has it bad, to be led by a PM of iridescent dis- regard for the realities of Brex- it? America has a simila...
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Khaki sempervirens
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I don't know why I think the green that is so congenital in khaki is, in any way, elusive. It may please me to be...
Friday, August 16, 2019
Suppose it were Friday clxxviii: And one forgot to go to the bank
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That's not so bad. There's always the movie. Anthony Perkins and Janet Le...
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