Today is Bastille Day, the day in 1789 when Parisian mobs turned the world upside down. La Fête Nationale celebrates the storming of the Bastille Saint-Antoine prison and the start of the French Revolution, which ended the Ancien Régime and … Continue reading Liberté, Egalité, but Ixnay Fraternité
It’s summertime and you need something to read at the beach. I get it. Pick one or all three. The first two are part of an unfinished trilogy. Think of Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony. Nine Lives is, well, Nine Lives. If … Continue reading Mittwoch Matinee
Today is the fifth anniversary of this blog. I have published a post every Sunday morning since July 8, 2014. As they say at weddings, for better or worse. The design has changed and the content has varied over this … Continue reading Number Five
I have come to the realization that many of the country’s problems could be solved if people opened a history book and learned about the past. Just imagine what would happen. We would be exposed to less nonsense about concentration … Continue reading “Something Different”
There are three cheese shops within a short walk of my apartment building. One sits just around the corner on Arthur Avenue. They have a nice assortment of cheeses from which they let me sample freely. Basically, my tastes run … Continue reading Ye Olde Cheese Shop
I used to have a quirky but gifted dance instructor who taught us that there are strictly defined roles in dance. She taught “social dance,” which consisted of basic patterns that could be used in any three or four-beat ballroom … Continue reading The Dance of Fatherhood
The other day I found a speck in my eye. I wasn’t sure where it came from, but it was a red speck, the kind you get from reading too much or squinting at the opera. I haven’t been to … Continue reading The Speck in My Eye
