What I Did on My Summer Vacation

There’s still about a week left before I head back to London, but the place is clearing out, the weather is closing in (not that it’s been that good this summer), and I feel myself getting ready to get back to my real, workaday life (whatever that is). So,...

Gone Fishin'

Takin’ a break for a couple of weeks. It’s time for family, fun, eating just caught striper, going to the beach when the sun comes out, packing as much into each day as we can. Should come out of it all by the end of the month, but in the meantime,...

Billy Collins Comes to Town

Photo Credit: Juliet Van OtterenLast night I was among 300 people who came to listen to Billy (we all just call him “Billy,” it seems) read under a big white tent with failing chandelier light. It was magical, but watching him do his thing is magical no...

Pay It Forward

Several months ago, I asked to be a part of the blogging gesture “Pay It Forward” that Angie was offering here. Time passed, Angie got busy writing and revising and, I believe, losing her appendix. But while I was briefly in the UK last week, I stopped...