SHAKESPERE WOULD LIKE JAPANESE TEA
Atami, Japan Look away from the great, grand dramas in life. they never seem to last. Look instead to the small, the enduring rituals that last in perpetuity and add […]
AN OBSCENITY TO THE SERENITY?
How many women and some men too, enjoy fashion shows? How many harbor dreams of strutting down the catwalk in an exciting wardrobe, to the admiring look of a […]
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IS DIFFERENT
TOSSED OUT OF A HOSPICE CENTER TWICE? Uncle Charlie was the most exceptional man I’ve met in a lifetime. Nothing changed him, right up to the end in his 90’s. […]
SUGAR, ICECREAM, CANDY- NO PROBLEM
Photo by John Belmont, Merriam, KS The sugar Industry has been my nemesis. It should be everyone’s enemy. They make sweet addictive products with no discernible benefit for consumers. Right? […]
EVEN IF NEW ENGLANDERS TALK DON’T LISTEN
Photo by John Belmont, Merriam, Kansas New Englanders up here in the Cold Corner of the country are said to be porcupiney, strong silent types. We can’t help it, we’re brought […]
WORDS MATTER A LOT WHEN YOU’RE 13
“To live as a hermit you will have to feast on squirrels and bugs?” How do our kids become adults, generation after generation, so that we can evolve? At thirteen I was […]