The Eastside View

left: our ridge, twilight B UT NOT WITHOUT FIRST seeing three more plays, eating one more fabulous meal, getting lost once or twice. All th...

left: LACMA at twilight Glendale, November 12— A LITTLE ODD to say of Shakespeare’s Othello that all’s well that ends well, but that’s how...

F OR SOME TIME NOW , since the middle of September in fact, I’ve been meaning to show you this photo. Seems to me it says all you need to sa...

A ND WHAT DO I THINK about the closing of our town movie theater, the Raven Film Center? It’s a very sad event, another step in the erosion...

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...