The Eastside View

I   THINK OF space, measure, marks, and accent. Why? Partly because I live in this landscape: except when traveling, it is my everyday c...

Lindsey at the Erickson Gallery, Healdsburg Sixes and tens for Lindsey on our anniversary Grow old along with me! The best is ye...

Eastside Road, May 7, 2017— Ilja Leonardo Pfeijffer: La Superba   (tr. Michele Hutchison) Albert Camus: L'Etranger Kamel Daoud:   ...

Eastside Road, April 30, 2017— T ESTACCIO IS A QUARTER of Rome across the river from Trastevere and south of the Aventine hill, a quarter...

Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 26, 2017— Via Damaso Cerquetti, Rome, April 25, 2017— P ROPRIETY AND THE APPROPRIATE pace of intended decay-...

In the Coppedè Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 25, 2017— O N THE OTHER HAND , if you are going to build palaces, why not build the...

Via Damaso Cerquetti, Rome, April 22, 2017— I   THINK IT BETTER to plant gardens than build palaces, as I’ve written here before, becaus...

Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 22, 2017— I   THINK IT BETTER to build gardens than palaces. Especially public gardens, or at least gardens ...

Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 20, 2017—— I   AM HAPPY to report that the Colosseum is much changed. Well, not the building itself, of cour...

Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 19, 2017— T HE CLEANING LADY arrived today. I thought she looked familiar somehow: about five foot four, st...

Via Damaso Cerquetti, Rome, April 19— O STENSIBLY THE PURPOSE of this trip is to introduce fourteen-year-old to Rome, its history and its w...

Cestius's pyramid seen from the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 18, 2017— W ELL, AS I WAS SAYING , af...

Margery Wolf 1933-2017 Via Damaso Cerquetti, Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017— W HILE THE CHRISTIAN world rejoices in the resurrec...

Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 15, 2017— S HE IS OF COURSE the patron saint of music and I’ve always been fond of that idea. I’m not sure ...