Moscow and London were out because of my accident resulting in a broken wrist. August left one further plan. My brother wanted my mother’s long-cherished dream of seeing Hawaii to come true, so he booked passage on a cruise, and I was invited. Seven days sailing along the Hawaiian islands, visiting various ports with garden…
Reading Recovery
Published in the year of his death from cancer, Henning Mankell’s After the Fire is a slow examination of a seventy-year-old’s confrontation with solitude and loss. The protagonist, a retired doctor, lives in a archipelago being visited by an arsonist, and we begin at the site of the first fire. Finding the arsonist is relegated…
mist, heat, light, rain
I broke my wrist. I broke my wrist on Wednesday, planning to leave for London on Monday. I broke my wrist on Wednesday, planning to leave for London on Monday, attend a masked ball ballet on Thursday, after visiting the queen’s gallery. I wanted to meet an old dear friend and his dog, visit…
Drinking Chocolate, Verb & Noun
Let me try to describe it. You open your mouth to take a taste, but it is like swallowing a thick river. Then you remember to sip, and the maneuver works. It is chocolate, but more so, in a cafe crowded for the weather, customers lined up for “hugs in mugs” ( TM) and hot…
