About a year ago I reposted the story of how my grandmother died on my daughter’s 7th birthday and how I had to find some joy in the...

On January 8, still reeling from the news out of Washington in the 6th, I reached out to you for help; I needed ideas for inhabitants of...

When I was in Taguasco, Cuba on a church trip I asked our host if the town had a synagogue and where all the Jewish people were--or if...

Do you remember my post of June 20, 2019? I wrote about the ocean and how it's rising due to global warming and at the same time...

So nice to see Bernie at the Inauguration. Since then he's been everywhere. Here in my neighborhood, stalking my cousin Tom in LA; he's...

I looked up the Biblical quote President Biden made in his inaugural address; it comes from Psalm 30, "Weeping may linger for the night,...

Last week I forgot to say Mazel Tov to Jon Ossof, Georgia's first Jewish senator, and now the youngest member of that august group. I...

Or the Palace of ART. Here's the story of a collage I had no intention of making. Audrey Webber, Associate Pastor at First Presbyterian...

What did I say last week? It has to get better doesn't it? OY VEH! Wednesday, January 6, also known as Epiphany, Three Kings Day,...

Last week I declared my intentions as an artist and the universe, in the persons of some of my lovely friends, is answering back. Bonnie...

Well, here we are. As my friend Nancy said, 2020 has been a rough couple of years. I just reread what I wrote at the end of 2018. "We’re...

Good Morning! I'll make this short because I know you want to open your presents, get the turkey into the oven, start the family Zoom...

Here's the next stage in the work I showed you on December third. I've filled in the red bricks on the second floor, the gold railing for...

Christmas is almost here so let's start celebrating with a song from the choir of the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York....

Happy Hanukkah! Everyone can celebrate the story of a light that did not go out. "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness...

I started a new drawing a week or so ago and thought you might like to watch it grow. So here it is. Doesn't look like much, does it?...

A while ago I took you on an architectural tour of Manhattan--this will be a literary tour through some of the classics of children's...

After I left my teaching job and spent a year at the Art Students League getting back into a routine of making art every day, I...

Maybe you'd like to watch one of my drawings as it evolves. I've always loved two neo-classical bank buildings in my neighborhood--at...

The other day I came to the end of number twenty-two of my little black books and put it on the shelf. In making room for the new book I...