We love one particular national institution here in Washington, the Kennedy Center, and last evening we had a unique experience there. It was a genuinely odd production of "Measure for Measure" -- considered to be Shakespeare's only "other" play about justice and mercy ("Merchant of Venice" being the first ( Read more... )

It's been a lovely Sunday. I awoke late, Joanne having found her way down to the pool -- and, as I first spied her, happily floating in it, in a shady corner. Deep blue sky, already 77 degrees ( Read more... )