Impossible Kisses

Sazanka tsuyu, "rainy season of the camellia flower." There is something about this rain that is different from other rain. M...

To most eyes the sign-manual of the impressionist is the blue shadow. And it must be admitted that too many impressionists have painted a...

Susan sat at the piano playing and the music she played took her away Susan Didn’t Take Anyone With Her “You’ve had quite a trip....

Over the weekend I said to somebody, “I can’t believe this weather. I’m wearing two shirts, two jackets and a scarf and I’m still shiver...

Alfred Sisley, the least successful of the major artists associated with Impressionism, has been very little studied. He died in relativ...

As a child, I would ask [my father] why he committed so much of his time to the study of martial arts—and why I had to learn. He looked ...

... When Oliver refuses to call off the bomb, Faraday has to stop it before it's too late. Faraday forces his car into a secure par...

My new socks arrived today. Six patterns, two pairs of each. The Mayan apocalypse is December twenty-first, only a few weeks away...

Late Sunday afternoon here around Chicago we had what people I know call a “ creamsicle sunset .” (I don’t know if they still have Crea...

“I retain from nature a certain sequence and a certain correctness in placing the tones, I study nature so as not to do foolish things, t...

Okay, fair warning, today’s post is going to be something darn close to, umm, really stupid. But I’m kind of excited about it. I have ju...

They turn off the lights at the garden shop after closing time and the Sun goes down but the Moon reflects the Sun. Other lights— traf...

Getting technology to work doesn’t scare me. I’m not scared by theory, or practicing technique. For me that stuff is like throwing bre...

She gasped, very loudly, and said, “You can’t use that picture!” I laughed and asked, “Why not?” She said, “It’s from ‘Prometheus’ ...

“All that we see dissipates, moves on. Nature is always the same, but nothing of her remains, nothing of what appears before us. Our ar...

Loudon Wainwright’s sporadic acting career, which includes parts in the films Big Fish, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Knocked Up (for which...

The Red Jacket Mlle Isabelle Lambert | 1885 The picture shows a young girl - Isabelle Lambert - who posed for Morisot several times. ...

A few months ago I mentioned that Cynthia Rothrock was designing clothing with Don Wilson. That stuff has come to market, and can be pur...