A Touch of Tarragon

One of my favorite stories about the early days of my first marriage is "A Pair of Merry Mollusks." In that story about...

"a vibrant collection" One of the joys of getting published in anthologies remains the possibility of making literary connecti...

The musical, "South Pacific," opened on Broadway in 1949. Seventy years later, in 2019, I saw two productions of it right here ...

Edith Wharton, 1881         New Year's Day and back in the roaring '20s once more. I've been in love with the original roar...

When the New Year began for me with an auto accident, I might have guessed that it was an omen. Somehow I didn't. I expec...

Despite the rain and overcast skies, Paris always bursts with color. This morning, after four consecutive days of what sometimes resembled...

I'd been to Orange Coast College before, several times to see plays and once even to sit in on a lecture given by a friend who w...