Sunny Side Up

San Diego, here we come! AAR, Torrey pines and Thanksgiving!

My "Religion of Trees" students didn't want to sketch outdoors because of the rain. In vain did I say it was fun struggling wi...

First rain in over a month makes the remaining fall colors pop!

Went tonight to the Transgender Day of Rememb-rance Vigil at Union Theological Seminary, a student- organized gathering. I've not gone t...

The atrium of the Robert Lehman wing of the Met has been turned into a giant (secular) mandala by Tibetan American artist Tenzing Rigdol . T...

Our church had its Episcopal Visitation today. The charming new Bishop of New York Matthew Heyd, an extroverted North Carolinian "churc...

Neighborhood colors

After happening on some of the 6th Ave panels of the suite of new mosaics in the 14th Street subway station three weeks ago , today I discov...

New word I'd rather not have learned: broligarchy .

Just a leaf from a big callery pear on West 12th Street. From below, the callery pears seem not to have noticed the change of season, their ...

I've been exasperated by the way presidential election results, focused on the Electoral College, are shown for a long time. We're a...