Music in Middlemarch

As I mentioned in this forum a few months ago, I have been re-reading books this year (https://valleyadvocate.com/blogs/home.cfm?aid=13576). In particular, I have been revisiting and enjoying some favorites from the eighteenth and nineteenth century.George...

Come on Irene!

Certainly I’m the first to make that allusion. As I write the rain gently falls outside, but I’ve been assured by some time tomorrow my dead bloated body will be floating down the Mill River as our town is ravaged by a category 16 hurricane. In preparation...

Under Irene's Spell

Sunday morning and it’s… raining and pouring. The air holds the tropical well, so everything feels soft and damp and oddly tender. Saskia wonders at eight in the morning when the rain will stop. I think the air calls for palm trees, maybe some sand...