And now, for something completely different...

I had some goals for June related to work-life balance.  Here's how I did: 1. Have a talk with my boss about it (not for the first tim...

My second opera of the season was Titus , one I had hardly heard of before this opera season.  S and I preceded the show with dinner at one ...

This year's Shakespeare Festival show was The Winter's Tale -- not one of his more popular plays.  I normally go see the show with ...

I finished up The Cellist of Sarajevo a couple of days ago.  I was five or six pages from the end when I put the book down on Saturday, b...

E recommended Captain Fantastic to me, because it stars Aragorn (aka Viggo Mortensen , but he will always be Aragorn to me). Except in t...

I rearranged my operas this season to accommodate E's trip to town.  As a consequence, the first one in my season was the Puccini classi...

As you know, I have been completely unable to get my act together as regards my sewing/crafting space in the basement. The same is not true...

The Graduate is one of those films that lots of people reference, and often.  And so, even without having seen it, I knew the references.  ...

I like having measurable goals. What I really need, though, is something completely intangible: get some "life" back in my work-...