STEPHEN FRY IS NOW MY POETRY TEACHER. He could be yours too if you rush out and buy a copy of Fry’s ‘The Ode Less Travelled’. You will not be discussing iambic pentameter around the water cooler at work, but hey. As for my poetry, hopefully I won’t feel the need to […]
NIGHT HAS FALLEN here in Ludlow, Vermont. The warmth of the sunshine and the slush has settled into a nice crisp and crusty layer of ice. The pretty, light snow of last weekend is now hard, brown and wet - not nearly so Christmasy as it was.
I spent most of the […]
SAD, BUT NOT UNEXPECTED NEWS on this Christmas Day - Harold Pinter passed away Christmas Eve night. Here are a few of the obituaries: BBC, The Guardian, The Times (London), and the New York Times. He lived a life as complicated and as many-splendored as his plays.
When I was in London […]
