After all these months of cooking our own food: We finally ordered takeout from Miss Kim, a Korean and Asian fusion restaurant. Our ...

"My Neighbor Totoro" Movie Poster from Studio Ghibli (1988) What are we watching on TV? We are watching the Studio Ghibli film...

Trevor Noah's memoir, Born a Crime , is an enormously powerful exploration of a number of issues. These issues arise from the politics...

Beautiful pottery made by Maki Lin of the Ann Arbor Potters Guild. The Ann Arbor Potters Guild usually holds a sale in June, but it'...

Here's a summer meal we enjoyed recently: home-made cold leek and potato soup (also called Vichyssoise), lettuce & tomato salad, ...

In the traumatic aftermath of reactions to the brutal death of George Floyd, street artists and muralists around the world have created m...

To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South by Angela Jill Cooley is a fascinating exploration o...

Taking a walk in my neighborhood is one of the small pleasures of early summer days. Lots of little animals live around us. The rabbi...

"For most of their existence in the United States, black people were noncitizens. Regardless of status, whether free or enslaved, blac...

Irises by Claude Monet (Wikipedia) Irises by Vincent Van Gogh (Wikipedia) Irises in bloom everywhere in my neighborhood made me thin...

Breakfast on our patio: bread and jam is a typical breakfast in French homes where we have stayed with friends. Orange juice: not so mu...

Count me among the numerous people who are confined by the pandemic, outraged by police atrocities, and wishing we could find a constructi...

“The Rock” in Ann Arbor is repainted frequently to reflect what people are thinking and doing. Today the rock says abbreviatedly: “Blac...

Ducks, geese, and killdeer searching for food on the far side of this pond: a good place for birding. The location is on Vreeland Road in...