Things That Disappear
The pale yellow “favorite blanket” that you had as a child. The hair dryer that covered your head like a…
The Last of the Best
Watch a video of this blob by going to my You Tube Channel. The text came when we were in…
Fear and Trembling
It’s that time of year again, Black History Month, the month when I once again try to explain to nine…
Don’t Send Her Back
The defining chant of Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign is almost certainly going to be “send her back.”
A Cruel June
It goes on. Last Sunday morning we woke up to read about yet another mentally ill individual who went out…
Christmas in the Caribbean
Christmas Eve in Bequia is a day of frenzied shopping, for unlike up in the States, no stores down here…
Bagging It
Okay, if I were the boss of that posh shop in Zurich, Switzerland, Trois Pomme, I would fire the saleswoman…
The Little Blue Dress
My husband and I were watching the news last night and out of the chaos of war and royal babies…
One if by Land
So, we went up to Boston, my husband and I, about three months after the Boston bombings and found the…
Hopscotch
You remember the 1980 movie “Hopscotch,” don’t you? Walter Matthau played a rogue CIA agent who was publishing a book…
Nineteen Eighty Four
I know I should feel outraged, violated, sullied. When the whistle-blower Edward Snowden this last week let it be known…
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is now a trip to the cemetery for me, I’m afraid. A trip to the florist’s first, of…
Easter
These days, we don’t go in much for huge Easter feasts with the relatives anymore. Easter is more of a…
Waiter, There’s a Horse in My Soup
You really have to feel sorry for the French. No matter how bad things ever got over there, no matter…
Snow Days
Remember just two blogs ago, I exhorted all of you to embrace the much maligned winter season? Well, I can…
Life Without Football
When I got up this morning, I did check and see who had won yesterday’s game, not because I was…
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
All right, it’s been pretty cold lately and at the moment it’s raining ice onto my roof. Everyone has been…
Eastward Ho!
Back when I was in high school in the late seventies and early eighties, back in the waning days of…
Island Of the Clouds
Let me just get it over with and explain where it is we are. On an island called Bequia which…
Living in America
There have been days since my father and mother passed away three-and-a-half years and a year ago respectively when the…
Coming to America
“You all memorized the Constitution, right?” the thin, blonde lady immigration officer asked a packed courtroom in Hartford, Connecticut last…
Boat People
So, Thanksgiving is once more upon us, the season in which where I work, little lines of boys and girls…
Shorefront Anyone?
When I was an undergraduate at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, there was a lecturer there by…
It’s Not a Riot Any More
The trial was over. The appeal had failed. The world’s press had gone home when last weekend, Maria Alyokina, age…
School Days
So the Taliban are now shooting girls who want to go to school, are they? Not that this is really…
Horror in Hyvinkää
There was a time nearly a hundred years ago when Finns did shoot at other Finns. Depending on who you…
Don’t Go to Gibraltar!
“Whatever you do, don’t go to Gibraltar.” This was what our friends and neighbors down on the Costa del Sol…
Fascinators Forever
I’m going to a wedding in England this summer and I’m pretty pleased about it. Of course, I’ll be happy…
