Finishing the painting, step 2As always, I check the drawing first. After looking at the painting carefully, it seemed to me that things were still a bit out of kilter. I a ...

A few recordings new and old on my stereo lately...~ "Evocation": soprano Sandrine Piau and pianist Susan Manoff in songs by Chausson, Strauss, Debussy, Zemlinsky, Koechlin ...

This sweet baby had to put up with the terrible heat and constant phone calls from my son’s school. What a trooper… ...

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When John Casey was in law school at Harvard, he took a course in creative writing from the short story writer Peter Taylor and submitted a draft of a novel he’d written i ...

Are you the sort who likes to dabble in languages? Who practices the learn-by-doing technique? Who believes that “la pluma es lengua del alma”?If so, you’ll enjoy hour ...

1) See "Iron Tongue of Midnight" in my blog roll. Blogger Lisa Hirsch, active in the Bay Area on the West Coast (and very well known in the online opera community for anyone ...

That's right, I said it, and I meant it!Paranaughty... ...

Finishing the painting, step 1Perhaps I will work in the same sequence as before, beginning with the gong. I have refined it a bit, sparkled up the highlights, and am going ...

We had a thunderstorm the other night so I turned off the computer, having heard from a friend of mine who has writer's block that lightning will shoot right ...

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Here are the colored pencil versions of the two sketches I posted yesterday. The birds are more brilliantly colored in real life--Crayola colored pencils (the only ones on h ...

“Is it important to date someone with a similar bookshelf to yours?” My kneejerk: yes, of course. How could one possibly spend an entire evening with someone who was ent ...

I do a lot of shopping. Mostly for my wonderful clients, but sometimes for me! I went to the Columbia, MD Restoration Hardware store this week to look at some barstools that ...

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