The permanent collection at the Detroit Institute of the Arts has an enormous influence on me. Like most kids in Detroit, I first went there on a school trip. (This was back when education included things like art and culture.) I was spellbound by the building itself. I stood on the stairs with my mouth… (read more)
I was listening to a woman talk about cancer today. I didn’t know her. I just overheard what she was saying. She was telling a group of people about her “struggle” with cancer and how she was very accepting of having the disease because she knew that God was taking care of her and that… (read more)
Nothing prepares you for Epheseus. It really is a place that seethes with life. Not just the thousands of camera-toting, sunblock-applying, child-chasing, photo-opping, cell phone-chatting humans around you. You are really catapulted into the past. You walk the same marble sidewalks as people thousands of years ago. You are under the same hard cerulean… (read more)
Blanche DuBois certainly knew what she was talking about. First of all let me say if you are staying at a hotel in the Notting Hill section of London, DO NOT LEAVE ON A SATURDAY MORNING! The world and its wife comes to an open air market on that day. Antiques dealers and pretend antiques… (read more)