Musings from the Roost

Sure, I'll bite—because it's fun. And even though I didn't watch The Late Show  (except randomly on FB shares), I will miss Step...

We have some old friends visiting, from Denmark: Jan, a Dutch naval architect who works at the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon...

I said yesterday that my traveling days may be over, but of course I have a list of places I'd still like to visit. Starting with Dubrov...

A couple of months ago—just after our illustrious leader's attack on Iran, when I anticipated that oil prices would be rising—I booked s...

I could have titled this entry "Sad," because that's what brought me here. Feeling sad, bereft even, at the disaster this coun...

10. Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary (2012) (5/1/26) Several years ago, my sister-in-law Patty recommended this book to me as something no...

Yesterday I posted (among other poems by Rita Dove) an ars poetica, and commented how much I enjoy these explorations of "the art of po...