Tag Archives: Art

The Riverside Story Bit

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story…” So begins Homer’s epic, The Odyssey. It also begins my own journey through those New Year’s Resolutions I nattered about last month – including to ramp up my reading! The Odyssey seems a fine start. It’s UC Berkeley’s online book club offering ahead of the […]

The Sampling Santa Barbara Bit

So does this happen to you too?  Are there close by places – not necessarily bucket list-y ones, just cool sounding ones – that you mean to visit but you never seem to get to?  I lived in LA for more than 25 years before getting out to nearby Joshua Tree National Park. At least […]

The Always Having Paris Bit

Yayyy! Almost time for my favorite biennial event – the Olympics! This year is the Summer installment, and I’m all the more excited because its stage is a magical city I’ve been fortunate to visit – Paris! Almost 40 years ago (back when I was an innocent broad…), Paris was the first big Continental stop […]