An Autumn Sonata – With Written Adagio Musings in Three Movements A sonata is a musical form generally composed of three or four different movements in contrasting musical styles and keys of music. The movements traditionally include a fast-opening movement, a slow second movement – an...
Claude Monet | Garden at Sainte-Adresse | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Postcard Story – Garden at Sainte-Adresse – Claude Monet - 1867 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art *** Oldest Daughter – 10/27/20 …and he said that this was one of his favorite paintings, a Monet, a painting he...
Book Review - Irena's Children - The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto - A True Story of Courage - Tilar J. Mazzeo - Gallery Books, New York, 2016 *** I have read many books on the Holocaust, but this is the first one I have read which centers...
Sebastian - Non-Fiction Short Story Excerpt Opening Paragraph … and then he paused and looked at me for a moment and smiled, not the smile of a street jokester or comedy club hopeful, but the smile of a person thoughtfully and sadly trying to connect the darkness and chill of the evening with the...
Mary Cassatt | Denise at Her Dressing Table | American | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Postcard Story – Denise at Her Dressing Table – Mary Cassatt – 1908-1909 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oldest Granddaughter – 07/22/21 … and mirrors do not lie, she thought, and … perhaps...
A Butter Pecan Ice Cream Cone at a Baskins-Robbins in Sacramento - She Held on to Her Walker with Hands so Gnarled and Misshapen that They Were Painful to Behold *** I went to a Baskin-Robbins in Sacramento to pick up the ice cream cake - Oreo Cookie - for my grandson's birthday party. An...
A Tale of Two Grandfathers Separated by Distance and Some Years in Time Los Angeles is a very diverse city and home to many diverse interracial marriages. When out grocery shopping, or in major public gatherings, such as a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, for me, interracial couples no longer...
Petrus Christus | A Goldsmith in his Shop | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Postcard Story – A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius – Petrus Christus - 1449 –The Metropolitan Museum of Art Second Granddaughter – 08/31/23 …and it was a nice wedding, as weddings go, but this...