Clichés – stale phrases that have lost impact due to over-usage – are frowned upon and considered unimaginative and superficial, such as “a picture is worth a thousand words,” or “all that glitters is not gold.” Dull. Boring. Lazy. Banal. Sophisticated writers cringe...
I knew a man in his low 30s – single, of course – who said that he never wanted to own anything more than could fit in his car. He considered possessions as traps, a type of deceptive quicksand. “More possessions, less freedom,” he said. “Objects are anchors.”...
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Ever since 2016 and the political “take-over” by you-know-who, complaining and nastiness have dominated our lives. Between deranged individuals splattering blood indiscriminately in random gatherings before committing suicide as their grand finale, and police shooting...
Last month, feeling crushed by the political debacle of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, Lona and I went to the opening of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, the first performance of the 2018 – 2019 season at the Kennedy Center. I was looking forward to...
Last week I was bedazzled by the masses of people and hundreds of thousands of books at the Frankfurt Book Fair, reputed as the biggest book fair in the world. Six huge buildings located at the Messe exhibition grounds were packed with booths of publishers from all...
