When a stroll in my neighborhood reminds me of Mark Rothko paintings (or, the other way around?)! earth on foot 28 Happy Autumn season!! I am super grateful for walks like this one. What about you? I’d love to hear what you are currently grateful for. Juggling activities, upcoming events, while making sure to attend to … Read more
12 November 2025 A big assignment just landed: a friend, a writer with a novel due out next year, has given me the homework of reducing my 160,000 word mystery novel draft to 80,000 words. With this goal committed, I find instead every activity supersedes. Never was my house more in order, or files more … Read more
rockslides on a rainy, misty day in Cavergno, Switzerland, where a waterfall sliced down a steep mountain; and slippery leaf-strewn tracks scaled into the mists for a view. The journal had no complaints
earth on foot 23 21 October 2025 The wind has arrived in earnest today. After a few sunny, warm days in NYC, the Baltimore temperature has dropped. Several people in my immediate orbit are under the weather—one presently “at one with the comforter” and on her second pot of tea. Two days from now, we … Read more
16 October 2025 earth on foot 22 One week, two major cities, none, at present, more unlike one another: DC and NYC. NOW: enjoying a cappuccino at Eataly, Madison Square Park, Bustling by my table, a steady stream of well-dressed, frowning people. A thin man smiles faintly as he walks, chest seeming to propel him … Read more
Still Life in Baltimore Mark making with a Small Person–Paul Klee would approve! #dada #surrealism
Koblenz to Baltimore. earth on foot 11 On our last day in Germany, I took the IC train an hour from Mainz to Koblenz. I’d been told the night before, at a beer hall notable for its 5-foot-tall beer steins, that it was a lovely city with lots of history and great apple strudel. On … Read more