Introduction: Pentler’s Folly If you ever want to rile up a Friends meeting, here’s a simple recipe: Leave them a lot of money in your will, but with no instructions about what to do with it. It’s a sure thing: the meeting will spend years haggling over what to do with all that worldly wealth. … Continue reading Holiday Weekend Stories: His Eye Is On The Sparrow
From the far out West, up against the curling, capricious lip of the Pacific, comes a dispatch from our Coastal Ocean & Fire Correspondent, Mitchell Santine Gould. With it is a stunning animated setting of Stanza 5 from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, a keystone of the poet’s classic Leaves of Grass. Mitch is a … Continue reading Video Treat of the Week: “Song of Myself,” Stanza 5
[NOTE: We’ll get back to troubles & woe presently. Meantime, something upbeat.] I’m a pediatrician. I unexpectedly became a foster mom to a patient. I asked my husband if we should put off retirement to become foster parents. He was on board right away. Washington Post — By Carolyn Roy-Bornstein —June 11, 2022 At a … Continue reading Doctor FeelGood: The Unexpected Foster Mother
Okay, pop quiz: Why is THIS the most memorable photo from the Big Royal Platinum bash in London? Can you see it? Most people, especially Brits (I expect) will see prime minister and convicted flagrant Coronavirus scofflaw Boris J, with wife Carrie, arriving for one of the many platinum photo ops — and recall that … Continue reading Best Photo from the Queen’s Big Shindig Is a Picture-Within-the-Picture
[Note: It’s rare that blog material turns up in the real estate section, especially the mainly rather upscale version in the Washington Post, and particularly in the rather very upscale horsey parts of Loudoun County, Virginia, out near where the Shenandoah Valley begins. But for many decades once upon a time, much of Loudoun was … Continue reading Here’s a Great Look at the Quaker “Good Old Days.” Beautiful — But a Lot of Work