Noted
Faces in a Crowd
On my way to work this morning, winding my way through the crowded streets of the garment district, I looked up to see three New
January 30, 2014
Travel
Never can say good-bye….
I’m back home after 33 days of if not total bliss, daily doses of beauty on the Italian riviera, the part known as the “levante.”
April 25, 2013
Travel
Paradise almost lost….
In a few days we will be leaving our beautiful temporary home, where even on stormy days the seascape that surrounds us is sublime. Now,
April 18, 2013
Travel
Reading the signs in Bogliasco, continued
It continues to rain and the sun remains an iffy prospect, but there have finally been signs of spring. On the passeggiata there are buds
April 11, 2013
Travel
Reading the signs in Bogliasco
Walking to and from the passeggiata, in and out of the tiny alleyways between the main road and the sea, I encountered these interesting examples
April 5, 2013
Travel
La Passeggiata
The high point of the day for most of us at the Fondazione, as well as for the inhabitants of the town of Bogliasco, is
March 28, 2013
Travel
Bogliasco
After a long, long plane trip—including 3 hours sitting in the plane on the ground at JFK as we waited for de-icing, and 4 hours
March 23, 2013
Travel
Jewish Book Week
I’m just back from Jewish Book Week in London, a city I now love the way I loved Paris when I first lived there—that feeling of
March 8, 2013
Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books, the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need now, in my eighties, to imagine what new writing might be.