Gingerbread House
Gingerbread* House, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January, 2019 It’s a sad fact that my sister and I don’t know anyone in Haiti anymore, have...
A Mind of Winter
END THE YEAR WITH YOUR CHILL INTACT (nice double entendre here, revealing that attitudes toward cold weather and the holidays have...
Tables II
Switch with me to another table on an evening out of balance to begin with. But I know my friends mean well, or do they? Isn’t it a...
Table Talk
“Nonfiction” (“Double Vies”) is an amusing French film about fast happening changes in the publishing industry, about the...
KIESKI OU YE?
Who goes there? That’s how Hamlet begins. Now stretched on a banner across streets in Port-au-Prince. No source, no acknowledgement, just...
Haiti, 2019
Report from Port-au-Prince and Jacmel, Haiti, January, 2019 I will not say, Let me be clear, nor make any claim as to the accuracy or...
Little Women
Perhaps it hasn’t occurred to you that Louisa May Alcott and Judy Chicago have much in common. Each is having a contemporary moment: an...
Modern Love
Modern Love They are migrants in their own country, the pair I have in mind, their ancestors having come from Europe, his in the early...
Group Portrait
What are you in the fourth grade? Well, what if I am, or at least like to return there periodically through a photograph I’ve kept, to...
Pop Quiz
Pencils up. Be quick. Who or what are these? Savonarola Giordano Bruno L’Éminence Grise Madame de LaFayette Guelphs/Ghibellines Bonnie...