Old Diaries

Madrid The flight over from Atlanta was crowded but uneventful. We got to Madrid at dawn. Poor Hector Ramos was waiting for us, early on this Sunday morning. He drove us to the Hotel Mediodia and were lucky enough to get a room...

Auckland -- 11 August Crossed the dateline, so this is actually the 10th, at home. Will get the day back in a month. Had an uneventful, if cramped and uncomfortable, eleven-hour flight from Los Angeles. We got to Auckland around 04:30 local time, and got held up by...

Biking up to the Gap of Dunloe This is the past few weeks' entries -- 20-22 July (This is a trip that Rick Wilber does annually, to Scotland or Ireland, offering a college-credit writing workshop combined with a literary tour. It's co- sponsored, this year, by his...

The Celebration .... went to a stone strange movie. _The Celebration_, directed by Thomas Vinterberg, showing at the local art museum. Sitting in folding chairs for two hours was only part of the discomfort. It's a good movie, but a challenge to the audience....

Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art Strange coincidence yesterday, and confluence, of art and science. I got my Artemisia book (Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art) from amazon.com...

Why would a middle-aged couple who aren't particularly athletic decide to take off and pedal across the United States, Florida to California? Well, we aways wanted to. It didn't seem like that big a deal, if you took it slowly enough. And a couple of years ago we...