On the Road: Cartagena
“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is …
“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is …
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer …
Originally published in the St. John Sun Times In typical island fashion, it was hard to tell when the old year ended and the new one began. The party was at Skinny Legs in Coral Bay where the unadvertised festivities (New …
Originally published in the St. John Sun Times We are now hoping to arrive by Thanksgiving. The boat is ready. After spending two months in the yard in Maine, the 70-foot Sonny is docked in Newport, Rhode Island, freshly painted and …
How much can you say in a two-minute speech? On the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, here are Abraham Lincoln’s immortal words. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived …
Words aren’t generally the first things that come to mind when thinking about the opera, but writing figures prominently in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. In Act I, the bookworm heroine, Tatiana, meets Onegin, falls instantly and madly in love, and decides …
Assateague is a windswept barrier island off the coast of Maryland. In 1962 there was a 15-mile road running down the middle of it, all the way to the Virginia state line. “Baltimore Boulevard” was built to pave the way, …
Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and …
The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life. –Seamus Heaney (April 13, 1939-August 30, 2013) In memory of the Irish poet and Nobel laureate. Read the obituary in The Irish Times.
A Tribute to St. John Icon Pirate Bill CORAL BAY, U.S. Virgin Islands — Pirates, I have learned since moving to St. John, have discriminating taste in beer. Grog, the watered-down rum that was the aqua vitae of all the seventeenth century …