sunday tune: elvis costello - '(what's so funny 'bout) peace, love and understanding?'

Lyrics by Nick Lowe: As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself Is all hope lost?...

imaginary outfit: weekend matinee

Today: an early morning with my husband and son, then quiet hours at the computer to work, and try and think through something I've read...

paper, cut and folded

From top: Shenandoah Valley of Virginia folk art cut-work valentine made by Sarah Weaver (1839-1918) . Love token for Sarah Newlin , 1799. U...

'anything can happen'

Anything can happen, the tallest towers  Be overturned, those in high places daunted, Those overlooked regarded. Seamus Heaney, from 'An...

'i look at them and i see us'

And to most people watching the refugee crisis unfold, the refugees detained and turned back at airports across the country are likely abstr...

marching on

Saturday Women's March was exhilarating. I marched in Washington, DC with my husband and son, my sister and her husband, a dear friend f...

'examples of resilience'

At seventy-seven, living on a tugboat in Sausalito, [Stewart] Brand is less impressed by signs of fragility than by examples of resilience. ...