·      Angelina Jolie is brilliant as Maria. Oscar-worthy. ·      As he claimed in the film, Aristotle was ugly and filthy rich. ·     ...

Thanksgiving is late this year which gives me time to talk books before talking turkey! Just back from an extraordinary trip to Andalucia...

I can't help but smile when I read William Cullen Bryant's quote about this time of year being a lovely smile. Bookended by Labor Day and...

Two-thousand miles in seven rollicking days. We are firm believers in St. Augustine ’s adage “The world is a book and those who don’t...

I’ve always been partial to the little kids. Both as a teacher and in my work now giving tours at The San Diego Museum of Art. I stood...

"except for the Presidential s**t show..."

...gets at that "wild, silky part of ourselves."

Like everything else on my body, my earlobes have sagged. Not surprising for earlobes more than eight decades old. Not really a concern...

Existential questions like this over an extended period of time led me to re-imagine my office recently. My corner office. Before you get...

Art Alive, the spectacular smashing together of art and flowers, happened a few days ago at The San Diego Museum of Art. I spent Saturday...

I am a docent. At an art museum. The San Diego Museum of Art. Before you roll your eyes remembering that boring academic lecture in front...

The purpose of this blog post is a giant mushy thank-you to all you hopeless romantics who believe in fairy tales and their power and...

"Let's fall in love. For if I loved you, time and again you would hear me say that I want to be loved by you, by you, and nobody else but...

Both in my newly formed writing group and my touring at the art museum, I’m focusing on newer, stronger, adjectives in my...

Erica Jong, celebrated novelist and essayist, was flying high in the late sixties and early seventies when I was chasing toddlers....

I’ve been gone from Ventura County for almost thirty years but will never forget Ojai’s legendary Pink Moments there. The Shangri-La-ish...

Over the years—make that decades—I have been a character in many plays. Teacher. Administrator. Trainer. Interesting fields like art and...

I’ve got Georgia on my mind. O’Keeffe, that is. A new exhibition opens in days at The San Diego Museum of Art featuring the iconic artist...

Vincent Van Gogh, who experienced many tumultuous seasons as he created his radically idiosyncratic, emotionally evocative art,...

After multiple crunch time plane excursions, the idea of getting in an automobile and traveling north from San Diego had great appeal....