https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438817 Fourth Sister – 12/14/20 …she had told him she did not like foo-foo, never had, not as a girl or teenager and definitely not now. He said this was not foo-foo, or phoo-phoo, or however you wanted to spell it, but here now before her was a big...
High School Reunions & Those Absent, but Not Truly Gone – Tribute #1 - Martha – My 6th Grade “Girlfriend” *** For our 45th high school reunion in 2013, we made stand up table displays of our departed classmates. We also solicited written tributes and memories from their friends and...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/271570 Third Daughter – 05/17/21 …and again, Lavita Lamour emerges, and again at night, shedding the intelligent, yes, but mild and unassuming and unimpressive daytime role as near-head accountant for a medium-size, fairly-respected, stable and...
Very Often our Electricity is Cut Off Дуже часто у нас відключають електрику I received an email with this photo of my friends in the first week of December. Я отримав електронного листа з цією фотографією моїх друзів у перший тиждень грудня. *** I was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley,...
Roy Lichtenstein | Stepping Out | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) (Not in Public Domain) Stepping Out Oldest NYC Grandson – 11/14/22 …and, yes, she was different, more alive than most of the girls he knew, well, all really, and that was good. She was like…a bird, yes, but one you...
Vincent van Gogh - Wheatfield with Crows - Van Gogh Museum Exactly! There have been moments in my life, starting when I was very young, when the vividness, newness, or beauty of a sight or event, or the incredible uniqueness of its peace or power - or both together - made a deep and lasting...
Sorry It Took So Long to Reply to You! Вибачте, що вам знадобилося так багато часу, щоб відповісти! As I sit in my warm, well-lit study and publish this post: Weather - San Fernando Valley – a cold winter evening for us of 45°F. Before we go to bed, I will turn on the heat to take the slight...
Boiled Eggs, Fresh Flowers, Chicken Fat, & An Old Cat Not Pictured Even though I write fiction and nonfiction, I primarily read history - good history that focuses on persons and presents the human element, the pathos, suffering, evil and good, very intimate moments, or just minute details...