The Compass Rose

Edwin Denby is a pleasure probably as obscure  to most people  as one might imagine, given the scope and intensity of his work.  He was a...

Fair warning here: I have never been a member of the Sierra Club, and I have never spent time supporting any environmental protection organ...

Few logos have the instant familiarity of Coca-Cola.  It's known the world over as the popular soft-drink whose taste ingredient ...

It's probably impossible to talk about the George Floyd case without offending someone at this point. It has become so over-hyped and...

deliberate stillness / in winded birds    (Short Poems)  Larry Eigner As readers of this blog know, Robert Grenie...

Who drinks cocktails anymore? It must be a dying art. Only the straggling ragtag crew of septuagenarians, of which I'm an honorabl...

San Francisco Chronicle for Thursday, May 21, 2020: University of California system will no longer require SAT, ACT for admissions.   Duri...