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Sweetness and Power
Yesterday morning, like most days this year, I made tea and toast and read the headlines before attempting to write something. “Made the mistake of reading the headlines,” I often say, since tuning in...
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Lilacs and ‘Ever-Returning Spring’
One morning this week, there was plenty of light in the sky at 6am, and powdery floral odors wafting in the window. On my walk the night before I stopped three times to smell the lilacs in particular....
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Gone To Kingston
Walking down the street in Kingston, New York this week I was stopped in my tracks by the smell of lilac. It occurred to me that it’s been almost a year since I posted here. I’ve been gone. Gone? It...
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Revolution and “Revolutions”
Yesterday April 27th was the 377th anniversary of King Charles I’s flight from Oxford to take refuge with the Scottish Army in the North during the English Civil War. The Protestant New Model Army was...
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Smiles of a Summer Night
Last week’s solstice reminded me of the Swedish romantic comedy Smiles of a Summer Night. That’s an understatement. Really any long summer evening with a slow moonrise makes me dream about recreating...
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Original Cast Album
And speaking of Smiles of a Summer Night, lots of people who didn’t spend the 90s ticking Swedish film after Swedish film off their watch list know it through Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. I...
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Rain in Ponckhockie
As I write this I have the pleasure of watching water waft across the asphalt in front of my house – water that used to be in the crawl space under my house, that is. I watch it collect in the gutter...
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“Thanks For the Trouble You Took From Her Eyes.”
Two years ago this month I fell in love, for about the fourth time in my life, and late-late one night we needed a song to hear before nodding off to dreamland. That’s when I came across Marissa...
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The Horny, Stinky Mephitidae of Winter
Snowdrops aren’t the only sign of spring approaching. These weeks before the vernal equinox, as the days are getting noticeably longer and the frozen core is melting out of the soil, leaving it...
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The Ruby Slippers
I read the odd news this week that someone had been arrested in Minneapolis for the 2005 theft of the famous ruby slippers from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The FBI recovered...
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