2022 Highlights
As 2022 unfurled, we adapted to the realities of coronavirus endemicity. This was the year of make up trips (not 1, not » Read more
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2021 Highlights
2021 was another doozy of a pandemic year. Pandemic year 2 started off well, Stump having being turned out decisively in November » Read more
2020: A year of clear vision?
Preamble How to sum up 2020? A year so chaotic, full of fear and fury, as to be life-altering, unforgettable and for » Read more
Coronavirus calendar: Quarantine dispatches (Month 2: April 2020)
“April is the cruelest month.” (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922) Throughout March, a line from Hamilton kept playing in my mind: “The » Read more
Coronavirus countdown: Quarantine dispatches (Month 1: March 2020)
Over the years, especially since starting this blog, I’ve kept notes on what we were seeing, experiencing, thinking, feeling, reading, even eating, » Read more
Sedona International Film Festival: February 2020
Saturday, February 22, 2020 For the past decade, the Sedona International Film Festival has occupied a permanent place on our yearly calendar » Read more
Eyes Wide Open: Looking at 2019
2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more
Sedona International Film Festival 2019: Silver Anniversary
Overheard at the start of this year’s Sedona International Film Festival, directed to festival director Patrick Schweiss: “Is this a good film? ‘Cause » Read more
2018 Highlights
2018 was a year in which aging, mortality and illness reared their ugly heads, in the family and our circle of friends. » Read more
2017 Highlights
The short version I didn’t really try to set a new record for longest year’s end summary EVER, it was an EXCEPTIONALLY » Read more