Sunday, February 21, 2021

Introducing Frida von Zweig

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Domestication of the dog has not nullified this instinct to lead or be led. This becomes a problem whenever an individual dog does not rec...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

It's OLMSTED, damn it.

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If you thought, as I did, that a couple of years back we (my sister and I) had finished sorting and purging the files from my Mother’s capac...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

The Best Tempest. Ever.

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First my friend Marianna told me that she had been asked to play the part of Prospero in a production on the Tempest on the island of Cuttyh...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Everything about the Holy Thorn

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Of all the things I expected from a sojourn in the Umbrian countryside (olive trees, wild boars, pasta, Roman noses, Etruscan vases, vin de ...
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Monday, February 18, 2019

SUNDAY ROUTINE (with apologies to the New York Times)*

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How Christine L, blogger, beekeeper, egg collector, terrible typist, and ranter, spends her Sundays THE NEW YORK TIMES . “I am a very hard...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

A Recycling Rant

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If you are going to recycle and want to feel good –or just unshitty - about recycling and the possibility of mitigating the imminent environ...
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Friday, February 8, 2019

Dante and Unanswered questions

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Sometimes a small and apparently unimportant question, such as, Why did my mother acquire so many postcards of William Blake’s Lucia carry...
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