Apologies, apologies, this has nothing to do with the Green Eyes , except that we played Monopoly once, with Sacha, the model for Jack Horn ...

(I listened to this, in Horowitz's interpretation, perhaps 500 times, so there you have it. My Horowitz was a studio recording; this...

More from Redwooood Country north of the Bay Area where we are staying during the weekend, thanks to an invite of Karen, our landlady in Sa...

"Let me help you!"

We borrowed this from our sister-blog , but we have an excuse, since it's also about writing techniques (see header). Here goes:   Pin...

And here is the link. Topical! Timely! Director has a campy voice! They used "blond" camels from Egypt, because the local one...

A former minister of finance of France, he had been married to one of the most beautiful, intelligent, and richest women of the country: An...

Rohleder's new home in Berlin Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung has a feature about Alexandra Rohleder . You've heard of her? You didn...

Today, at the Moosalp, up 400 meters from Bürchen (us), located at a saddle point between two local mountains, with views of the Matt-tal (...

Well, not quite, but you can call it formal foreplay (perhaps better: formalized foreplay?) There they come. When we showed these p...

Waiting to be seated for brunch at Jestine's in Charleston (@ a cool 95° F (34° C))

We had met him the day before at dinner with Cliona, our neighbor, and Yael, a friend of Cliona. We are all invited over for drinks at his p...

Dirk informs us by email that our lavender picture represents the lavandula stoechas, which blossoms March - June. Sadly, he continues, it ...

Mark Twain died (or was born) today, a thousand years ago (OK, yesterday). This is the home where he was born, with the fence that opens T...