Sunny Side Up

My sister's learning Mandarin, too! Her teacher's much younger than mine, and describes an entirely different China than the one I...

A giant phoenix flew over us today (on its way to China?)...

The Torrey Pine my father raised from seeds is becoming treelike!

Blue Whale watching in summer off the San Diego coast? Indeed! Would have been worth it even without the half-dozen cetaceans we saw. ...

1) If you say everyone gets to build a floor of a certain size, someone will add a balcony. Someone else will build a penthouse. Then someo...

My Aussie nephews had a first taste of Mexico - well of Tijuana - today. What will they have thought? We used to go a lot as kids, with...

The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision was announced while my friends M and H were helping me finish cleaning up my apartment on Mond...

Succulent in spectacular bloom backlit by the setting sun - this San Diego County really is the world of Theodore Geisel's (a. k. ...

Happy reunion in California with my sister's family, visiting from Australia. As for past visits, nephews T and W join me in commemorat...

As promised, some more from the " Offense and Dissent " exhibition. This is from an editorial from the New School Bulletin , ...

An afternoon journey from the Atlantic, a sun-gilded weave as the plane looped back westward, over the MidWest, darkened by clouds in ...

One thing I forgot to take a picture of at the exhibition opening - the curatorial team! Happily the Japanese translator of the Matsunaga p...

A nice finale to June in New York - Pride Sunday. It started with a sermon by my friend H at Holy Apostles, in part about Holy Apostles...

Some more of George Bates' great illustration on the Orozco story ...

I'm not going to be able to capture the whole of "Offense & Dissent: Image, Conflict, Belonging" for you, in part becaus...