The Ides of March Aren’t ALL Bad!

I’m delighted to be speaking and signing books this coming Saturday, March 15 – oh, those Ides! – at the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts Bookfaire at Whittier College. I hope you can join me! Besides being, with the assassination of...

OF BUTTERFLIES AND MEN

BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE…except when they’re threatened with extinction. (“Flight,” Adriane Grimadi) And you can’t take the sixties out of the girl ~ especially, I’ve discovered, in her sixties. More than four decades ago – in a time, like our own,...

The Stars Are Fine, So Dance!

Today, my hometown celebrates the art and industry that puts bread on our tables and fosters dreams in millions of hearts. It’s the Academy Awards, and many of us are rooting for our favorite dreamweavers to walk away with the gold statuette aprocryphally dubbed...

Dance of the Big Hunger: Time to Vote!

It’s election time in America. In case you hadn’t noticed. The national temperature is way, way up, bringing to mind the apocryphal Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” As kin on the right coast struggle to climb from the...