→ April 10, 2009
First published in 1931, Vita Sackville-West’s masterpiece is the fictional companion to her great friend Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Room of One’s Own’. A beautiful book, quiet and haunting. And a fascinating exploration of how a building can exert a profound spiritual and emotional pull. Dame Wendy Hiller, the esteemed British actress, appeared as Lady Slade in the [...]
→ April 7, 2009
Good article from Huffington Post. Didn’t want you to miss it. Right here.
→ 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 [...]
