Surprised by Time

https://www.history101.com/the-intriguing-history-of-hobo-signs-symbols/   At one point when I was talking with Mr. Matthews [see previ...

     Fifty years ago when I was the young mother of small children, we lived in the family neighborhood of Chevy Chase, DC.  Over several mo...

What is wanted here is silence. That the young woman is pregnant is suggested by her unlaced gown, shorter in front than in back. Her ...

I have been exchanging notes with a Byzantine art historian who recently found this painting although she has never actually seen it...

I have written before about Ag. Metamorphosis near Asine -- here and here . I am writing again because I want to call attention to Mi...

I was crossing Connecticut Avenue this afternoon behind a fluffy white table-dog, the kind a daughter of mine would call a “kick-me d...

This was our Christmas in Nauplion 38 years ago, when my children were younger than my grandchildren are now, and when Greece was a...

From Researches in Greece & the Levant by the Rev. John Hartley, M.A., 1833.  The Rev. Hartley's route in 1828 from Napoli to...

Μετὰ τὴν σσιάν τάχιστα   χρόνος.  After the shadow time ages in a hurry. Time Ages in a Hurry is the title of a marvelous book...

Giovannino de Grassi, d. 1398.