Fortunately, I’m a slow needle-pointer. Steady, sure. But slow. The downside of this is that I can spend months (years?) on a project. The upside? This glacial pace allows for some thinking. And overthinking. I’ve done a lot of pondering during my current project. This is a 14-inch-by-10-inch canvas showing a shelf of seven books. […]
The other day I came across a clutch of canceled checks (remember those?). I found myself wondering (fruitlessly it turns out) what I bought for $1.90 with that first check I ever wrote. The date was January 6, 1968–when Lyndon Johnson sat at the Resolute Desk and the Boston Red Sox sat on the American […]
On Saturday (November 6) Kathryn Tsandikos sat at one end of a table chatting with visitors and signing copies of Two Up and a Bag of Chips!, her history of George’s Coney Island restaurant. She was within arm’s reach of a pile of boxes of four-inch snack pies. These were Table Talk pies. This made […]
I needed a second copy of King Lear last week. Yes, a NEED. My wife, Sandy, and I wanted to read it to each other before heading out to the Berkshires to see a production (July 21) of the play at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox. (Starring Christopher Lloyd!) Before making an online purchase of a digital […]
Some things make little sense. Like what I read and where and when I do it. Plagued by self-consciousness, I find that a Kindle aids me in this regard. I can read with an air of mystery. Nobody knows what I’m reading (imagine, for a second, that they might care). On Saturday morning my burgundy-encased […]
For his final word on the ESPN broadcast of Denmark’s 2-1 win over the Czech Republic in the Euro 2020 quarterfinal match in Baku (!) on Saturday July 3, an announcer turned to literature to capture the moment. He (either Derek Rae or Efan Ekoku) pulled out a quotation by Danish fairytale-teller Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1870) (at right) that […]