Month: February 2015

I’m Giving Away Small Mercies

I went out of town for a weekend, and when I got home my stack of mail included several books for review. Inexplicably, I had...

Can You Handel Seattle Opera’s Semele?

Typical. I studied hard for the accessible Tosca. But I walked into Seattle Opera’s production of Semele cold. And I really could have used a...

Finding Colin Firth

At my daughter’s school, students are encouraged to find connections between their own life and the stories in the books they read. If I was...

Old Fashioned Wedding

We stumbled on a couple in historical dress getting wedding pictures taken at Nijo Castle....

The Dadaists and Big Hero 6

So I’m reading Lipstick Traces and it’s slow going because these beautiful sentences go on and on until your realize that they might not mean...