Surprised by Time

Captain Williams, my brother Peter (age 6) and me (nearly 12) in King Tom, Freetown, Sierra Leone (between White Man's Bay and Kroo...

Adoration , by Brian Kershisnik Ἐγένετο: it happened.  That’s how stories begin: Once upon a time, In the beginning, In the days w...

Circumstances have made it impossible to write an entry for this week.  So I thought it might be amusing to post here an excerpt fro...

Out of the overflowing abundance of images from the Byzantine world, this is the only image I have been able to find that shows affectio...

My correspondent, Pavlos Plessas, sent me a new image of Nauplion this week, quite the nicest I have ever seen. It is a panorama of th...

Detail from icon of Ag. Menas, ca. 1600. After a battle at Itylo killed 700 Turks , 1 Kladas was pursued further south and was...

When that thin veil of grief descended on November 22, 1963, irrevocably dividing hope from the future, I could not have anticipated that...

Elizabeth Columba, Phillis (Wheatley) 2010. Mark Rothko, untitled.

My left knee. My left knee was replaced yesterday by a new polyethylene and steel knee. Scroll halfway down on that link & l...

Vilhelm Hammersh ø i, 1900. Vilhelm Hammersh ø i, 1900. With appreciation to Irene Connelly who introduced me to...