→ May 31, 2009
There is nothing like having a great book, hanging out in the sunshine – or inside when it rains – and heading off to the land of adventure or inspiration or knowledge. Here is a list of reads for Summer 2009 – some old, some new - Angela 1. Love Will Tear Us Apart – Sarah Rainone A Nick [...]
→ May 25, 2009
Set yourself free, Baby Boomers, and opt for an adventurous and engaging life – it’s yours to plan and starting right now is a good time. Jeffrey Johnson and Paula Forman offer some valuable information on how and why and have written The Hourglass Solution: A Boomer’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life. “Many boomers [...]
→ March 22, 2009
In her latest book, New York Times health columnist Jane Brody writes about the mistakes she made at the end of her own mother’s life. Find out more from this article in the New York Times – here
→ March 20, 2009
by Paul Saltzman Hardcover in clamshell box In December 1967, 23-year old Paul Saltzman traveled to India in search of himself. To his great surprise, he found the Beatles, at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram. Saltzman spent a magical week here, learning meditation and hanging out with John, Paul, George and Ringo. This Deluxe Limited Edition is limited [...]
→ February 23, 2009
The Snow Leopard author travels through a barren landscape. Novelist. Travel writer. Explorer. Zen monk. Peter Matthiessen is all of these, and more. But to consider the totality of his life experience and literary achievements is to risk being swept away by the drama of his worldly adventures and, as a result, to lose sight of [...]
→ February 21, 2009
THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2009 6:30–8:00PM SMALL TALK NO. 6: MAIRA KALMAN Not Thinking (and the Pursuit of Happiness) Painter, essayist, observer, dreamer, embroiderer, accordionist, silent walker, author, fan of petit fours, teacher, student of the oboe and clarinet, illustrator, fez collector, opera maker, receipt-saver, list-maker and inventor of the percussion instrument “the Canundrum,” Maira Kalman is having an open [...]
→ February 11, 2009
Peter Schlesinger photographer – Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava is included in the book Checkered Past. Schlesinger was able to address his ‘portraits’ in the natural surroundings of his ‘models’, both in England and on the European Continent. The results are casual portraits of such luminaries as Hockney himself, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Paloma [...]
→ February 6, 2009
First Sentence: In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, and all the silent ponderings about what lies within them for our sons [Why only sons? Since I wrote this I have acquired two daughters, and they too shape the pattern's pieces, and the texture of my belief!] it seems plain to [...]
→ February 3, 2009
So, what are the rules of haiku as they are written in English? Haiku are about the natural world and are attempts at capturing fragments of Zen-like enlightenment in words. Everyone knows that haiku are three-line poems of 17 syllables distributed according to a 5-7-5 rule, but, as is so often the case, it’s not quite as [...]
→ January 22, 2009
The famous laboratory of food. The most famous restaurant in the world. The World! Just try to get a reservation. 8000 seats a year – 500,000 people trying. How does one get a reservation at El Bulli? The restaurant is open from May until September, and starts taking reservations in mid-October for the next season. Around October 15th, send [...]
→ January 15, 2009
The Elements of Style Brevity is what probloggers advise so I picked up The Elements of Style at the library. Not an easy read for those of us who paid more attention to socializing in school than actually concentrating on what a reflective clause was. My mother drilled speaking correctly into my brain and this little [...]
