For my daily walk I borrowed a big black umbrella. But—how to open it?
California Dreamin’
It’s no longer just the perfectly proportioned who wear thongs on the beach; the size of some of the buttocks on display is awe-inspiring.
The Handmade House
I imagine the success of the Beach House was largely due to the energy of these women: Grandma on the rooftop, her three daughters, and their many daughters and nieces who enjoyed the house for three generations.
Exquisite Aloneness
There is an avidity, even an arrogance, and a superb energy I sometimes detect in those who live alone…
Life Is What Leaps
How to keep a spark of hope alive in our so-called democratic process? How not to drop into numbness and apathy?
Girls of Summer
If she can move like this playing paddle ball, surely she can act with equal skill, grace, and assurance in a board room, a corporate office, or an artist’s studio.
Or Hear Old Triton Blow His Wreathed Horn
… what has been lost is valuable, too, since it includes a shared heritage of literature, especially poetry, even though it was entirely the poetry of nineteenth century men.