Walking near our hotel in old San Diego, the Gaslamp District, the ubiquitous ragged and often ranting homeless, echoing the decay of so many U.S. downtowns and the people who live there, not out of c
I am unpacking my library. Having retired from my university teaching position after 20 years in the Arizona desert, I sold or gave away much of my belongings and returned fulltime to my old home of N
I’m standing in the Huntington Library in Pasadena, to which we were bused as suburban schoolchildren to stare in confused awe (how could adults be interested in such boring pictures?) at Portrait of