The Eastside View

N OT A DOG PERSON, no no no no, not in this country. We had a dog, of course, when I was a kid, sixty years ago and more; just about everyo...

H OW WAS THE MARK MORRIS, a friend e-mails, and another writes I wasn't as convinced about the performance as you were, but am very gl...

F OR A SUPPERCLUB CONCERT last night I'd been asked to provide about fifteen minutes of music. I put the assignment off too long, but a...

There seem to be various proposals afloat to help homeowners add solar panels to their roofs. Good idea, no doubt about it. But I have anoth...

We're back from a September in the Netherlands and the Var -- a week visiting extended family in The Hague and Friesland, two weeks walk...

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...