The Blue Remembered Hills™

"Time to write? Oh, dad, you crack me up!"  If you lived through the 1960s in the United States, you were either very wor...

I'm at a loss to explain how five weeks can have passed since my last post. The Holidays played a role, for sure, as did family visitin...

It is fitting, I think, to begin a series about American interior decorating on Thanksgiving, the most characteristic American holiday. Fitt...

The famous British magazine  Private Eye  used to carry a regular feature called  Pseuds Corner  in which they pilloried purple poetical pr...

I have a confession to make and I might as well make it on a Sunday morning as another time: I really like plain white Corian. Unmentionabl...