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,...
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...
A Few Days Ago, I Took My Mail-in Ballot to the Post Office A few days ago, I took my mail-in ballot to my local post office, more than a week ahead of the actual deadline to vote by mail. As I walked out of the post office after carefully depositing my mail-in ballot in the inside mail slot – a...
Writing In the Shade of Trees, Where it all Began *** On a trip to England in 2010, I began to research, and also sought to see and experience, certain aspects of my mom and her family’s life in London before and during WWII. During my time in London that year, I was staying in Brentford in...
Art, Art, Everywhere I have a friend with multiple degrees in art. Years ago, as I remember, he told me his theoretical and working definition of art is that it must be composed of line drawing – be that the entire composition, or a major part of the work, or just some portion with line...
The Unbroken Coffee Cup – Postscript to Broken Coffee Cup Series This posting is a postscript to the Broken Coffee Cup Series. And here, the featured photo is the green-rimmed coffee cup, unbroken, intact, and whole, the twin of the broken blue cup, both given to me as gifts at the same time...