The Eastside View

Friesland: from the Franekervaart Originally uploaded by charlesshere . Rien, Sept. 6-- W E TRIED TO PUT politics and the news beh...

U P THIS MORNING LATE , to log on to Tom's marvelous high speed connection wirelessly, and read the news, oh boy. In Le Figaro two or th...

Giant lily, Botanical Garden Originally uploaded by charlesshere . Amsterdam, Sept. 2 (and very early in the morning it is!)— A lei...

Elms near Leidseplein Originally uploaded by charlesshere . Amsterdam, September 1 A long rest and a short wrestle with technology...

O NE OF US , I won’t specify which, determined that the bus to the airport left at 11:45, so we got to the bus stop at about 11:30. Two buss...

CurtisFields Originally uploaded by charlesshere . A MAN I HARDLY KNOW sends a copy of his new book, Curtis Fields: a Lifetime in...

St. Helena Sunset Originally uploaded by charlesshere . I’d wanted to reach this peak since my tenth year, when I began watching th...

Y ES, I KNOW , the whole point of a blog is that it be frequent, preferably daily. I plead age: ik ben jarig, as the Dutch say, I'm year...

A  DEAR OLD FRIEND spent the afternoon yesterday. He’s French, a Parisian, and intelligent, somewhat reflective man though a very active ...

T HE DISCUSSION CONTINUES re. food costs, quality, and quantity. The issues raised Friday by Julie Powell (see below for web citation) were...

A FEW FRIENDS ASK what I think of an op-ed by Julie Powell in yesterday’s New York Times , “Don't Get Fresh With Me!”. Not much, real...

Ashland, Oregon T WO MORE PLAYS to report on here from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We saw Love’s Labour’s Lost night before last, in ...

A LITTLE PROBLEM WITH THE EYE puts me in mind of mortality. (Excuse the exaggeration: I’ve been seeing Shakespeare plays.) And then I fi...

Ashland, Oregon E IGHT OF US STAY in this house for a week, seeing plays. We don’t always see eye to eye, and yesterday was one of those da...

Ashland, Oregon S O BEGINS — not quite — just about my favorite Shakespeare play, which we saw last night. We saw it a little over a year a...

A can of Italian white beans, a can of good tuna, a red onion sliced thin, a drizzle of olive oil, sage leaves if you remember them. One of ...

T HANKS TO ALL those heroic farmers, tradesmen, bankers, writers, and seamen who fought and argued and thought so passionately to win our i...

A friend sends the draft of a paper on authenticity. It relates to something that’s been preoccupying me for a while; let’s call it Separati...

...Romana per oppida carmen. ( Georgics, II, 176) A dear friend urges me, now that I’ve read Cato and Varro, to turn again to Virgil and th...

Frank Lloyd Wright Duplexes Originally uploaded by charlesshere . These duplexes, many now needing a little attention, were built i...