I want to share my pleasure when looking at these stitched pieces. https://conduitgallery.com/viewing-rooms/lap-work-pandemic-stitching
I have been listening to some of the half-hour “Doc Chat” weekly episodes of the New York Public Library’s Center for Research in the Humanities. One of them was about the library’s Picture Collection (1.5 million images strong) and the way in which it is organized. Librarians have made and make decisions about which of
I hosted Joan Frank on Meraki Radio: Perspectives after reading her most recent book, The Outlook for Earthlings. The book is about two female friends and their different paths in life, their varying philosophies on how to live. Mel is insular, perhaps pathologically so, and Scarlet is flippant and feeling– verbal. The story ebbs through
This lovely book, this lovely, sad book, really struck me. Its beautiful, spare language is never overwrought, even as it pulls us through great sorrows, great loss. I loved that about it because it ultimately tells a very sad story, the story of a child abandoned by his mother. But I never felt pummeled by
A lovely way to open up a Saturday: LINK
Thanks to Barbara, I became too interested in watching the eagle cam last year about this time. Now we have come full circle with the first egg of this season on its way to hatching. The eagle pair I watched last year slipped off the the edge of their territory and built a new nest
This book was such a surprise. I had tuned into a conversation between Eliot Weinberger and Forrest Gander, hosted by Point Reyes Books, and afterward submitted a request for this book to my library. Not sure what I expected but it was very unexpected. Though all of it is based on historical texts and it
Now that we’re back to Open Arts I felt this meal was worth sharing. Kamil and I have a fantasy of creating a restaurant called smacznego, which in English translates to enjoy your meal. Bon appétit. Yesterday we served the tasting menu to some friends safely outside on a sunny Sunday. In recent iterations, I’ve
I was able to get this from the Woodland Public Library and am better for having read this challenging, impossible book. So much sadness, so much pain is in nearly every page. The book is about solitary confinement and most of the essays are written by prisoners. Themes across the essays include– denial of freedom,
