On Saturday evening, as part of the great Myopic Books reading series that Larry Sawyer organizes and runs, I participated in a reading to...

Well, September is nearly over, and I haven't blogged for weeks. A huge part of that has been returning to Chicago and Evanston to teach...

At the invitation of Miriam R ., one of my former fiction students, I joined her and a friend of hers at the rally, at City Hall Park yeste...

Happy Labor Day , readers.  Or should I say, let's all hope for happier labor days to come soon. 128 years after the first U.S. Labor Da...

Now that Labor Day is upon us I'm finally returning from my little blog hiatus. As I mentioned back at the beginning of August, I had a ...

As I mentioned a month or so ago, I'd been trying out the iPad C'd gifted to me, and was enthralled with using the AnimatorHD softwa...

While on my way from one place to another, I happened upon a corner display of colorful, witty series of vernacular paintings and decoupages...

An eggplant on the vine An eggplant on the vine Some of the harvested eggplants Eggplant with onions and two cheeses (with homemad...

On the MTA Street musicians, SoHo iPad Reader Proper in purple Mohawkery