The 300 yards of dirt track that connect  Forest Hill Cemetery (the "white" cemetery) to the Weirsdale Community Cemetery (the ...

On my recent visit with the parents, I dropped by the cemeteries located near their former house in Summerfield, FL. The folks have moved t...

Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez My second reading of this one. It's a wonderful book, exquisitely translated by Edith...

This Ceanothus 'Sierra Blue' was one of the first California native shrubs I planted in the yard, about 20 years ago, and one of my ...

His synthesis of blues and free jazz was unique . Like many jazz guitarists, it seems, he followed an inner flame.

Giles , to most of us. 

At the risk of playing a stupid game, I would place him  in the top three jazz instrumentalists, with Louis and Bird. Here he is live , in 1...

City of Glass Paul Auster A postmodern meta riff on the suspense novel. Overall I enjoyed it, even if in the end it seemed too clever by hal...