Coming soon: the ultimate blogger party of the year, an entire month of "Paris in July." Paris is surely my favorite tourist des...

Owls are fascinating and hard to see when bird watching. I love it when we find one. Their eyes are very strange and a bit frightening. Owls...

A Jewish Refugee in New York: A Novel, by Kadya Molodovsky is a new translation from a serialized Yiddish publication that ran in the New Y...

A friend wrote me a question:  Do you know why coasters are called coasters (the mats that you put glasses on, not the smaller ships that hu...

  Bench donated by two brownie troops and the PTO of the school. “Flags” is another name for irises, at least in some places. And a mural on...

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary"-- Picasso "Cat Catching a Bird," 1939, Pablo Picasso. In 1939, the Spanish C...

Iceland is a wonderful place. We toured there last summer, and hope to return when such travel is possible. So I was excited to hear about a...

I wrote this in 1999 after being in Cambridge, England, for several weeks, while Len was attending a workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute ...

Since 2001, "Shakespeare in the Arb" has presented outdoor performances of a chosen Shakespeare play each June, except during the ...