Sunday, May 17, 2026
“As we all understand, you can take a man’s show, you can’t take a man’s voice.” — David Letterman I expect to see a lot of Stephen Colbert in the headlines this week, as the… Read More
Saturday, May 9, 2026
We had planned to spend the day in one of the masterpieces created by the Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudí, and wound up in another. It was a real lemonade-out-of-lemons experience, and it included one of… Read More
Friday, May 8, 2026
Montserrat is many things: a mountain, a monastery, a municipality, a park. It’s one of the most stunning places I’ve ever seen. Martha and I caught a bus from Barcelona on Wednesday morning, making a… Read More
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
We set out for Spain on a Monday and got there on a Tuesday; an overnight flight from Montreal will do that. It was early in the breakfast hour in Barcelona when we arrived, and… Read More
Monday, May 4, 2026
My niece Beth gave this mug to me, and it makes me laugh: it comes with a base with design elements from the Empire in Star Wars, and lights up the glass mug appropriately. May… Read More
Monday, May 4, 2026
“The press can be surprisingly easy to co-opt. But remember the Woodward-Darman law, which dictates that a friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.”— Maureen… Read More
Sunday, May 3, 2026
“I’m not somebody who ever has regrets — I’m a great believer in doing things with the best of intentions, and then you learn rather than regret. There are lots of things I’ve learned by… Read More
Saturday, May 2, 2026
“Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.”— Leonard Cohen It’s been almost a decade since Leonard… Read More
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Sir David Suchet was born on May 2, 1946. While he has had an extensive career in the theatre, movies and television, he will always be known for one role in particular: Hercule Poirot. Suchet… Read More
Friday, May 1, 2026
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy… Read More
Thursday, April 30, 2026
“I don’t know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.”— Gary… Read More
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
“My parents were less than thrilled when they got the news. I can understand that: a life in the arts is chancy in at least a hundred ways, ninety of them financial. My mother said,… Read More
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
“Space belongs to all of us. There is science in dance and art in science.”— Mae Jemison The first Black woman to go to space, Mae Jemison has sought out pursuits in the sciences —… Read More
Monday, April 27, 2026
“I’ve found I have started to use small-time mob-boss tactics in my house. I figure out things that they like, and then threaten to hurt those things.”— Jerry Seinfeld In November 2006, Jerry Seinfeld was… Read More
Sunday, April 26, 2026
“Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. You can usually tell as they are coming into the park whether it is going to be a happy, responsive crowd… Read More