I had kind of forgotten that Liza Minnelli is "one of us."  Then I got watching a documentary about her this week, from "Amer...

Right now...*  * ( an occasional (mostly monthly) meme , alternating from time to time with " The Current "). (Explanation of how ...

I spent this past weekend-plus as a couch potato. (Well, I'm often a couch potato, and not just on weekends (!) -- but this was more so ...

Measles -- made rare in recent decades, thanks to vaccines -- has recently (sadly) been staging a comeback -- in the U.S., but also here in ...

My  D.E. Stevenson reading group  has just finished its chapter-by-chapter reading & discussion of Stevenson's first published novel...

Free of pressing new book club obligations (for the time being...!), I FINALLY got around to diving into  " I'm Sorry for My Loss: ...

Have you ever noticed that crappy stuff seems to happen all together, in quick succession?  1998-99 was like that: I lost my baby, returned ...